Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1967

Eurovision Song Contest 1967
Eurovision Song Contest 1967
Country	Ireland
National selection
Selection process	Postcard voting
Selection date(s)	12 February 1967
Selected artist(s)	Sean Dunphy
Selected song	"If I Could Choose"
Finals performance
Final result	2nd, 22 points
Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest

The Irish National Final was held on 12 February 1967 by RTÉ TV in Dublin, Ireland the winner was chosen by postcard voting.

National final

The final was hosted by Brendan O'Reilly at the Studio's of RTÉ in Dublin the winner was chosen by postcard voting.

Draw	Artist	Song	Place	Points
1	Patricia Cahill	"Back To The Hills"	2	13951
2	Johnny McEvoy	"Over The Hill"	5	2920
3	Aedín Ní Choileáin	"Inisheer"	8	457
4	Deirdre O'Callaghan	"The World Outside"	7	1182
5	Sean Dunphy	"If I Could Choose"	1	16723
6	Patricia Cahill	"Canavaun"	4	3172
7	Aedín Ní Choileáin	"Never More Be Leaving"	6	1677
8	Johnny McEvoy	"Somebody of My Own"	3	11682
9	Deirdre O'Callaghan	"Faraway"	9	306

Eurovision Final

Ireland started at placement 17th at the end of the startfield and finished 2nd place with 22 points.

Points Awarded by Ireland

2 points	Luxembourg Sweden
1 point	Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands United Kingdom

Points Awarded to Ireland
10 points	9 points	8 points	7 points	6 points

5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
	Germany	Austria Belgium	Finland Monaco Sweden United Kingdom	Italy Luxembourg Portugal Yugoslavia

References

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Eurosong You're a Star Discography
Participation	1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
Artists	Bambie Thug Black Daisy Brooke Nicky Byrne Can-linn Maria Christian Kiev Connolly Dana Muriel Day Dervish Ryan Dolan Donna and Joe Chris Doran Cathal Dunne Sean Dunphy The Duskeys Dustin the Turkey Angela Farrell Eddie Friel Paul Harrington Mickey Harte Red Hurley Kim Jackson Jedward Sandie Jones Jump the Gun Niamh Kavanagh Brian Kennedy The Lindsays Johnny Logan Luv Bug Dawn Martin Linda Martin Maxi Pat McGeegan Charlie McGettigan Sarah McTernan The Missing Passengers Butch Moore The Mullans Sinéad Mulvey Brendan Murray Gary O'Shaughnessy Ryan O'Shaughnessy Eimear Quinn Liam Reilly Tina Reynolds Marc Roberts Dickie Rock Lesley Roy Sheeba Kasey Smith Molly Sterling The Swarbriggs Eamonn Toal Wild Youth Colm C.T. Wilkinson
Songs	"22" "All Kinds of Everything" "Born to Sing" "Ceol an Ghrá" "Chance of a Lifetime" "Come Back to Stay" "Could It Be That I'm in Love" "Cross Your Heart" "Do I Dream" "Doomsday Blue" "Dreamin'" "Dying to Try" "Et Cetera" "Every Song Is a Cry for Love" "Happy Man" "Heartbeat" "Here Today Gone Tomorrow" "Hold Me Now" "Horoscopes" "If I Could Choose" "If My World Stopped Turning" "In Your Eyes" "Irelande Douze Pointe" "Is Always Over Now?" "It's for You" "It's Nice to Be in Love Again" "Lipstick" "Love?" "Maps" "Millennium of Love" "Mysterious Woman" "One Day Love" "Only Love Survives" "Playing with Numbers" "The Real Me" "Rock 'n' Roll Kids" "Somewhere in Europe" ~~"Story of My Life"~~ "Sunlight" "Take Him Home" "Terminal 3" "That's Rich" "That's What Friends Are For" "They Can't Stop the Spring" "Together" "The Voice" "The Wages of Love" "Wait Until the Weekend Comes" "Walking the Streets in the Rain" "Waterline" "We Are One" "We've Got the World" "What's Another Year" "When" "When You Need Me" "Why Me?" "Without Your Love" "You Can Count On Me"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Ireland did not compete

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Countries	Austria Belgium Finland France Germany Ireland Italy Luxembourg Monaco Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Yugoslavia
Artists	Minouche Barelli Inge Brück Noëlle Cordier Sean Dunphy Fredi Géraldine Peter Horten Vicky Leandros Lado Leskovar Eduardo Nascimento Louis Neefs Raphael Sandie Shaw Kirsti Sparboe Thérèse Steinmetz Claudio Villa Östen Warnerbring
Songs	"L'amour est bleu" "Anouschka" "Boum-Badaboum" "Dukkemann" "Hablemos del amor" "If I Could Choose" "Ik heb zorgen" "Il doit faire beau là-bas" "Non andare più lontano" "Puppet on a String" "Quel cœur vas-tu briser ?" "Ring-dinge-ding" "Som en dröm" "Varjoon – suojaan" "O vento mudou" "Vse rože sveta" "Warum es hunderttausend Sterne gibt"