Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995

Following three consecutive victories, the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest was once again held in Ireland. Eddie Friel was selected to represent his country after winning the national selection contest, which was held on 12 March 1995 at the Cork Opera House in Cork. For the fifth year running, Pat Kenny hosted the event. The eight songs presented were voted on by ten regional juries.^[1]

Draw	Song	Performer	Points	Rank
1	"Dreamin'"	Eddie Friel	99	1st
2	"The Night Time"	Mary Farrell	66	6th
3	"Ó Am Go hAm (From Time to Time)"	Annette Griffin	68	5th
4	"Now That Love Has Brought You Back Again"	Henry Winter	37	7th
5	"Rainy Day"	Joan Connolly	33	8th
6	"Little by Little"	Carl Corcoran	73	4th
7	"Come Back and Hold Me"	Maggie Toal	82	3rd
8	"Always You"	Naoimh Penston	92	2nd

"Dreamin'" went on to 14th place in the contest with 44 points, thus sparing Ireland the duty of hosting a fourth consecutive contest. Ireland won again, however, the following year.

Points Awarded to Ireland
12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
	Sweden
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Bosnia and Herzegovina Russia Slovenia Turkey	Greece	Iceland Spain		Denmark France Germany Norway

References

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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 1995

Countries

Final (by final results)	Norway (winner) Spain Sweden France Denmark Croatia Slovenia Israel Cyprus United Kingdom Malta Greece Austria Ireland Iceland Turkey Russia Poland Bosnia and Herzegovina Belgium Portugal Hungary Germany

Artists

Final (by final results)	Secret Garden Anabel Conde Jan Johansen Nathalie Santamaria Aud Wilken Magazin & Lidija Darja Švajger Liora Alexandros Panayi Love City Groove Mike Spiteri Elina Konstantopoulou Stella Jones Eddie Friel Bo Halldórsson Arzu Ece Philipp Kirkorov Justyna Davorin Popović Frédéric Etherlinck Tó Cruz Csaba Szigeti Stone & Stone

Songs

Final
(by final results)

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