Ireland has participated since the 1965 Contest in Naples.
Since then, they have missed only two contests, in 1983 in Munich and 2002 in Tallinn.
Ireland is the most successful country in the contest, with a total of seven wins. Of late, their record has suffered a knock with generally dismal results. The sun has most certainly set on their Eurovision golden days.
All of the Irish entries have been performed in English with the exception of the 1972 entry, “Ceol an Ghrá”, which was sung in Irish.
Ireland have hosted the contest on seven occasions, all but one of these in the capital Dublin, while the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest was staged in Millstreet, a town in north-west County Cork with a population of 1,500 people.
