| Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 | ||||
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| Eurovision Song Contest 2001 | ||||
| Participating broadcaster | Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) | |||
| Country |  Ireland | |||
| Selection process | Eurosong 2001 | |||
| Selection date | 25 February 2001 | |||
| Competing entry | ||||
| Song | "Without Your Love" | |||
| Artist | Gary O'Shaughnessy | |||
| Songwriter | Pat Sheridan | |||
| Placement | ||||
| Final result | 21st, 6 points | |||
| Participation chronology | ||||
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Ireland was represented at theEurovision Song Contest 2001 with the song "Without Your Love", written by Pat Sheridan, and performed by Gary O'Shaughnessy. The Irish participating broadcaster,Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ), organised the national finalEurosong 2001 in order to select its entry for the contest. Seven songs faced a regional televote, ultimately resulting in the selection of "Without Your Love" performed by Gary O'Shaughnessy as the Irish Eurovision entry.
Ireland competed in the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 12 May 2001. Performing during the show in position 12, Ireland placed twenty-first out of the 23 participating countries, scoring 6 points.
Prior to the 2001 contest,Radio Éireann (RÉ) until 1966, andRadio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ) since 1967, had participated in theEurovision Song Contest representing Ireland thirty-five times since RÉ's first entry in1965. They has won the contest a record seven times in total. Their first win came in1970, with "All Kinds of Everything" performed byDana. Ireland holds the record for being the only country to win the contest three times in a row (in1992,1993, and1994), as well as having the only three-time winner (Johnny Logan, who won in1980 as a singer,1987 as a singer-songwriter, and again in 1992 as a songwriter). In2000, "Millennium of Love" performed byEamonn Toal placed sixth.
As part of its duties as participating broadcaster, RTÉ organises the selection of its entry in the Eurovision Song Contest and broadcasts the event in the country. The broadcaster has consistently used a national final procedure to choose its entry at the contest, with several artists and songs being featured. For the 2001 contest, RTÉ announced the organisation ofEurosong 2001 to choose the artist and song.[1]
Eurosong 2001 was the national final format developed by RTÉ in order to select its entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2001. The broadcaster opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries for the competition until 29 October 2000, and a jury panel selected the eight finalists after reviewing all of the submissions received at the closing of the deadline.[1] The finalists were announced on 6 February 2001 during a press conference which took place at the Club Annabel inDublin and was hosted by former contest winnerDana.[2] On 16 February 2001, "Gypsy Blue", written and to have been performed by Thom Moore, was disqualified from the national final as the song had been performed in 2000 at the Dun Laoghaire Song Contest, thus violating the rule that barred songs from being released before the competition.[3][4]
The national final took place on 25 February 2001 at theRTÉ Television Centre in Dublin, hosted by Louise Loughman and was broadcast onRTÉ One as well as online via RTÉ's official websiterte.ie. The show was also broadcast in the United Kingdom onTara Television.[5] Following a regional televote, "Without Your Love" performed by Gary O'Shaughnessy was selected as the winner.[6] Over 60,000 televotes were cast during the show, with runner-up InFocus receiving the most overall votes with 13,356 votes, followed by third-placed act Fe-Mail with 12,271 votes and O'Shaughnessy with 11,653 votes.[7][citation needed]
| Draw | Artist | Song | Songwriter(s) | Points | Place |
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| 1 | James Peake | "Who Said I Pray" | Colin Maguire | 41 | 5 |
| 2 | InFocus | "Every Kiss Is a Lie" | Kevin Breathnach, Billy Larkin | 70 | 2 |
| 3 | Gavin McCormack | "I'll Be with You" | Tommy Quinn | 34 | 6 |
| 4 | David Murphy | "Katie Lovely" | David Murphy | 31 | 7 |
| 5 | Fe-Mail | "Undertow" | Paul Swan | 63 | 3 |
| 6 | Gary O'Shaughnessy | "Without Your Love" | Pat Sheridan | 74 | 1 |
| 7 | Emma Reynolds | "The Innocent Days" | Gerry Morgan | 51 | 4 |
| Song | Dialling codes | Total | ||||||
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| 05 | 02 | 06 | 09 | 07 | 04 | 01 | ||
Waterford | Cork | Limerick | Galway | Sligo | Dundalk | Dublin | ||
| "Who Said I Pray" | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 41 |
| "Every Kiss Is a Lie" | 8 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 70 |
| "I'll Be with You" | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 34 |
| "Katie Lovely" | 4 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 31 |
| "Undertow" | 10 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 8 | 63 |
| "Without Your Love" | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 74 |
| "The Innocent Days" | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 51 |
The Eurovision Song Contest 2001 took place atParken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 12 May 2001.[9] The relegation rules introduced for the1997 contest were again utilised ahead of the 2001 contest, based on each country's average points total in previous contests. The 23 participants were made up of the host country, the "Big Four" countries (France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom), and the 12 countries with the highest average scores between the1996 and2000 contests competed in the final. On 21 November 2000, an allocation draw was held which determined the running order and Ireland was set to perform in position 12, following the entry fromPortugal and before the entry fromSpain.[10] Ireland finished in twenty-first place scoring 6 points.[11]
In Ireland, the contest was broadcast onRTÉ One with commentary byMarty Whelan.[12][13]
Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Ireland and awarded by Ireland in the contest. The nation awarded its 12 points toDenmark in the contest.[14]
RTÉ appointedBláthnaid Ní Chofaigh as its spokesperson to announced the results of the Irish televote during the show.[14]
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