Ireland

Ireland has participated in the Own Eurovision Song Contest 12 times, debuting in the first contest, with their best position being 4th, achieving this at the OESC #02 contest.

OESC 11
One Direction got the privileged to represent Ireland for the second in the 11th editionof the Own Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Live while we're young".

They placed second in their semi-final and achieved 101 points.

It didn't go as well in the final, where they placed in the middle of the board, 12th and achieved 123 points.

OESC 12
Ireland withdrew from the contest for the first time at 12th edition of OESC, but it was later announced that Ireland would return to the 13th edition.

OESC 13
On 18 October 2012 it was announced that Ireland would return to the 13th edition of Own Eurovision Song Contest represented by The Script and their newest hit single "Hall of Fame" featured by the American rapper will.i.am.

Contestants

 * XX on Semi Finals denotes auto-qualification. This could be due to the fact that the country ended up in the top five in previous contest or one of the country in top five in previous year withdraws.
 * XX on Finals denotes an unsuccessful attempt to qualify to the final.