Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023

Ireland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool, United Kingdom, with "We Are One" performed by Wild Youth. The Irish broadcaster, RTÉ, organised the national final Eurosong 2023 in order to select the Irish entry for the 2023 contest.[1] Six songs faced the votes of a studio jury, an international jury and a public televote which determined the final selection.

Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Country Ireland
National selection
Selection processEurosong 2023
Selection date(s)3 February 2023
Selected entrantWild Youth
Selected song"We Are One"
Selected songwriter(s)Ed Porter
Conor O'Donohoe
Jörgen Elofsson
Finals performance
Semi-final resultFailed to qualify (12th)
Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Ireland was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 9 May 2023. Performing during the show in position 6, "We Are One" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final.

Background
Main article: Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2023 contest, Ireland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest fifty-four times since its first entry in 1965.[2] 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 holds the record for being the only country to win the contest three times in a row (in 1992, 1993 and 1994), as well as having the only three-time winner (Johnny Logan, who won in 1980 as a singer, 1987 as a singer-songwriter, and again in 1992 as a songwriter). In 2011 and 2012, Jedward represented the nation for two consecutive years, managing to qualify to the final both times and achieve Ireland's highest position in the contest since 1997 Marc Roberts, placing eighth in 2011 with the song "Lipstick". Since 2013, only two Irish entries managed to qualify for the final: Ryan Dolan's "Only Love Survives" which placed 26th (last) in the final in 2013, and Ryan O'Shaughnessy's "Together" which placed 16th in the final in 2018. The Irish entry in 2022, "That's Rich" performed by Brooke, once again failed to qualify to the final.

Before Eurovision

Eurosong 2023

Eurosong 2023 was the national final format developed by RTÉ in order to select Ireland's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023. The competition was broadcast on RTÉ One as well as online via RTÉ Player during a special edition of The Late Late Show held on 3 February 2023 at the Studio 4 of RTÉ in Dublin. The show was hosted by Ryan Tubridy with Marty Whelan reporting from the green room.[3][4]

Competing entries

On 30 September 2022, RTÉ opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries for the competition until 28 October 2022.[5] At the closing of the deadline, 330 entries were received.[6] The competing entries were selected through three phases involving a jury panel with members appointed by RTÉ; the first phase involved 60 entries being longlisted after all of the submissions were reviewed, while the second phase involved 10 entries being shortlisted and the third phase involved the six finalists being selected.[6] The finalists were presented on 9 January 2023 on The Ryan Tubridy Show broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1.[1][7]

Artist Song Songwriter(s)
Adgy "Too Good for Your Love" Andrew Carr, Peter Solymosi
Connolly "Midnight Summer Night" Jennifer Connolly
K Muni and ND "Down in the Rain" Kofi Appiah, Nevlonne Dampare
Leila Jane "Wild" Leila Jane Keeney, Liis Hainla, Arto Ruotsala, Aaron Sibley
Public Image Ltd "Hawaii" John Lydon, Lu Edmonds, Scott Firth, Bruce Smith
Wild Youth "We Are One" Ed Porter, Conor O'Donohoe, Jörgen Elofsson

Final

The national final took place on 3 February 2023 and featured commentary from a panel that consisted of former Irish contestant Jedward, singer-songwriter Ruth-Anne Cunningham, radio presenter and singer-songwriter Gemma Bradley and opera singer Celine Byrne.[8] Guest performers included upcoming Irish artists performing former contest hits and former contest winner Niamh Kavanagh performing "In Your Eyes". Following the combination of votes from an international jury (1/3), a national jury (1/3) and public televoting (1/3), "We Are One" performed by Wild Youth was selected as the winner.[6][9] The international jury panel consisted of former contest winner for Denmark Emmelie de Forest, Slovenian composer and producer Žiga Pirnat, Ukrainian Head of Delegation Oksana Skybinska and British contest expert Paul Jordan, while the national jury panel consisted of musician Paul McLoone, radio presenter Brendan O'Loughlin and presenter Louise Cantillon.[10]

Final – 3 February 2023
Draw Artist Song Intl.
jury		 National
jury		 Televote Total Place
1 Leila Jane "Wild" 2 2 2 6 6
2 Adgy "Too Good for Your Love" 8 4 4 16 5
3 Public Image Ltd "Hawaii" 6 6 6 18 4
4 Connolly "Midnight Summer Night" 12 10 10 32 2
5 Wild Youth "We Are One" 10 12 12 34 1
6 K Muni and ND "Down in the Rain" 4 8 8 20 3

At Eurovision

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 31 January 2023, an allocation draw was held, which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, and determined which half of the show they would perform in. Ireland was placed into the first semi-final, held on 9 May 2023, and was performed in the first half of the show.[11]

Once all the competing songs for the 2023 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Ireland was set to perform in position 6, following the entry from Portugal and before the entry from Croatia.[12]

At the end of the show, Ireland was not among the ten countries announced as qualifiers for the final.[13]

Points awarded to Ireland
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