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Prior to the 2021 Contest, Ireland had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 52 times since its first entry in 1965. [1] Ireland has won the contest a record seven times in total. The country's first win came in 1970, with then-18-year-old Dana winning with "All Kinds of Everything".
Ireland has sent 57 entries to the Eurovision Song Contest; [a] of these, seven have won and eighteen have finished in the top five, making Ireland the most successful country in the contest overall as of 2021.
Eleven Eurovision winners (alongside three non-winners) were featured at the special concert Congratulations: 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, in which ABBA's "Waterloo" was voted the most popular song of the contest's first fifty years. [85] Ireland and Sweden have won seven times, more than any other country. Ireland also won ...
Cork-born singer is the first Irish delegate to make it through to the Eurovision final since 2018, with fans hailing their dramatic staging and impressive vocal performance
The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 was the 65th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Rotterdam, Netherlands, following the country's win at the 2019 contest with the song "Arcade" by Duncan Laurence. The Netherlands was set to host the 2020 contest, before it was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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From 2016 to 2021, RTÉ held an internal selection to choose the artist and song to represent Ireland at the contest, while RTÉ set up the national final Eurosong since 2022 to choose both the song and performer, with both the public and jury involved in the selection.
Ireland’s song contest representative will be selected on Friday night from six competitors, including the ex-Sex Pistol. John Lydon ‘shaking’ ahead of bid to become Ireland’s Eurovision entry