Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967

Eurovision Song Contest 1967

Country

Ireland

National selection

Selection process

Postcard voting

Selection date(s)

12 February 1967

Selected entrant

Sean Dunphy

Selected song

"If I Could Choose"

Finals performance

Final result

2nd, 22 points

Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest

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The Irish National Final was held on 12 February 1967 by RTÉ TV in Dublin, Ireland the winner was chosen by postcard voting.

National final

The final was hosted by Brendan O'Reilly at the Studio's of RTÉ in Dublin the winner was chosen by postcard voting.

Draw	Artist	Song	Place	Points
1	Patricia Cahill	"Back To The Hills"	2	13951
2	Johnny McEvoy	"Over The Hill"	5	2920
3	Aedín Ní Choileáin	"Inisheer"	8	457
4	Deirdre O'Callaghan	"The World Outside"	7	1182
5	Sean Dunphy	"If I Could Choose"	1	16723
6	Patricia Cahill	"Canavaun"	4	3172
7	Aedín Ní Choileáin	"Never More Be Leaving"	6	1677
8	Johnny McEvoy	"Somebody of My Own"	3	11682
9	Deirdre O'Callaghan	"Faraway"	9	306

Eurovision Final

Ireland started at placement 17th at the end of the startfield and finished 2nd place with 22 points.

Points Awarded by Ireland

2 points	Luxembourg Sweden
1 point	Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands United Kingdom

Points Awarded to Ireland
10 points	9 points	8 points	7 points	6 points

5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
	Germany	Austria Belgium	Finland Monaco Sweden United Kingdom	Italy Luxembourg Portugal Yugoslavia

References

Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Participation

1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 ~~1983~~ 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 ~~2002~~ 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Artists

1960s	~~1960 to 1964~~ Butch Moore Dickie Rock Sean Dunphy Pat McGeegan Muriel Day

1970s	Dana Angela Farrell Sandie Jones Maxi Tina Reynolds The Swarbriggs Red Hurley The Swarbriggs Plus Two Colm 'C.T.' Wilkinson Cathal Dunne

1980s	Johnny Logan Sheeba The Duskeys ~~1983~~ Linda Martin Maria Christian Luv Bug Johnny Logan Jump the Gun Kiev Connolly & The Missing Passengers

1990s	Liam Reilly Kim Jackson Linda Martin Niamh Kavanagh Paul Harrington & Charlie McGettigan Eddie Friel Eimear Quinn Marc Roberts Dawn Martin The Mullans

2000s	Eamonn Toal Gary O'Shaughnessy ~~2002~~ Mickey Harte Chris Doran Donna and Joe Brian Kennedy Dervish Dustin the Turkey Sinéad Mulvey & Black Daisy

2010s	Niamh Kavanagh Jedward Ryan Dolan Can-linn feat. Kasey Smith Molly Sterling Nicky Byrne

Songs

1960s	~~1960 to 1964~~ "Walking the Streets in the Rain" "Come Back to Stay" "If I Could Choose" "Chance of a Lifetime" "The Wages of Love"

1970s	"All Kinds of Everything" "One Day Love" "Ceol an Ghrá" "Do I Dream" "Cross Your Heart" "That's What Friends Are For" "When" "It's Nice To Be In Love Again" "Born to Sing" "Happy Man"

1980s	"What's Another Year?" "Horoscopes" "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" ~~1983~~ "Terminal 3" "Wait Until the Weekend Comes" "You Can Count On Me" "Hold Me Now" "Take Him Home" "The Real Me"

1990s	"Somewhere In Europe" "Could It Be That I'm In Love" "Why Me?" "In Your Eyes" "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" "Dreamin'" "The Voice" "Mysterious Woman" "Is Always Over Now?" "When You Need Me"

2000s	"Millennium of Love" "Without Your Love" ~~2002~~ "We've Got the World" "If My World Stopped Turning" "Love?" "Every Song Is a Cry for Love" "They Can't Stop the Spring" "Irelande Douze Pointe" "Et Cetera"

2010s	"It's for You" "Lipstick" "Waterline" "Only Love Survives" "Heartbeat" "Playing with Numbers" "Sunlight"

(Note: Entries scored out are when Ireland did not compete)

Eurovision Song Contest 1967

Countries

Final (by final results)	United Kingdom (winner) Ireland France Luxembourg Monaco Spain Belgium Sweden Germany Yugoslavia Italy Portugal Finland Netherlands Austria Norway Switzerland

Artists

Final (by final results)	Sandie Shaw Sean Dunphy Noëlle Cordier Vicky Leandros Minouche Barelli Raphael Louis Neefs Östen Warnerbring Inge Brück Lado Leskovar Claudio Villa Eduardo Nascimento Fredi Thérèse Steinmetz Peter Horton Kirsti Sparboe Géraldine

Songs

Final (by final results)	"Puppet on a String" "If I Could Choose" "Il doit faire beau là-bas" "L'amour est bleu" "Boum-Badaboum" "Hablemos del amor" "Ik heb zorgen" "Som en dröm" "Anouschka" "Vse rože sveta" "Non andare più lontano" "O vento mudou" "Varjoon - suojaan" "Ring-dinge-ding" "Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt" "Dukkemann" "Quel cœur vas-tu briser?"

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