Ireland: Eurosong 2023 competing acts and entries released

• The Irish broadcaster, RTE, has unveiled the competing acts and songs of the national final for Eurovision 2023. 

  RTE is sticking with last year's format for selecting their Eurovision hopeful and will be holding the televised national final 'Eurosong 2023' which will be aired during the Late Late Show on RTE 1.

  This morning during The Ryan Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio 1 the names of the acts that will take part in Eurosong 2023 along with the songs were released. 

   

  A total of six acts will run for the chance to represent Ireland at Eurovision 2023. Namely those are: 

  • ADGY – “Too Good for Your Love”
  • Connolly – “Midnight Summer Night”
  • K Muni & ND – “Down in the Rain”
  • Leila Jane – “Wild”
  • Wild Youth – “We Are One”
  • Public Image Limited – “Hawaii”

   

  All songs are available to listen to on the official RTE website.

   

  Michael Kealy, RTÉ Eurovision Head of Delegation, stated:

  "I am really impressed by the quality and standard of the six acts we have in our Eurosong final this year.The Eurovision Song Contest is a global phenomenon, and the competition is getting harder every year, but whichever of our six finalists gets to represent Ireland in Liverpool in May, I've no doubt they will represent us brilliantly, winning new fans all over the world."

   

  The Irish national final 'Eurosong 2023' is set for February  3 and will hit the screen as a special edition of the Late Late Show. The outcome of the selection will be determined by votes coming from a national jury, an international jury and public voting.

   

  Ireland in Eurovision

  Ireland is a country of records when it comes to the Eurovison Song Contest. It has participated 54 times since making its debut at the 1965 contest in Naples and has won the competition 7 times, more than any other country. (1970, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996). It is the only country that has won the contest three successive years (1992, 1993, 1994) while Dublin is the only city to have hosted the event two consecutive years. (1994,1995).

  During the decade of 90’s the country had a row of 4 vicotries in a 5 year time  (1993, 1994, 1995 and 1997) and Dublin became host city three times.Irish act Johnny Logan is the only one to have won the contest twice (1980, 1987).

  In 2018 the country selected internally  Ryan O’Shaughnessy to represent the country with his song Together, which finished 16th in the grand final, marking the country's first qualification to the final since 2013. 

  Lesley Roy was selected to represent the nation in Rotterdam for Eurovision 2020 with the song "Story of my life" but never reached the stage as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Lesley was reinvited for the 2021 edition in Rotterdam where she performed "Maps" which sadly finished in the last place of the 1st Semi Final. 

  Last year, Brooke won the national final 'Eurosong 2022' with her song 'That's Rich' which competed in the second semi-final in Turin without achieving to reach the Grand final. 

   

  News Source: RTE

  Image: EBU/Corinne Cumming

   

   

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Angelos D.
Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 13 consecutive years along with the 2017-2024 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.