Northern Ireland in Own Eurovision Song Contest 36

Northern Ireland will participate in the Own Eurovision Song Contest 36. The Northern Irish entry will be selected through a national selection named Northern Ireland: Your Choice (36) organized by the Northern Irish broadcaster BBC Northern Ireland, to select the artist and the song.

Format
On 17 January 2015, after the results of the semi-final 1 of the thirty-fourth edition were revealed, BBC Northern Ireland, the Northern Irish broadcaster, decided to make a big national selection to choose the entry for the thirty-fifth edition. However on 28 January 2015 BBC Northern Ireland officially announced the cancellation of the National Selection because of some economic issues. Along with the revelation of the representative for the 35 contest, the broadcaster announced that the National Final, with the name Northern Ireland: Your Choice, would be held for the 36 contest. The Northern Irish broadcaster picked quickly 5 judges for this big national selection. The format of the competition involved a series of ten televised shows that included a casting process to select performers, five heats where the qualifiers of the casting performs some popular songs given by the judges, semi-finals where the selected performers presented their eventual contest entries, finally concluding with a final where the Northern Irish entry for the 36 contest was selected. Wendy Austin hosted the competition series.

Competing entries
The competing entries include the qualifiers of the casting and heats televised shows. 20 songs will take part in the semi-finals and will try to represent Northern Ireland in the Own Eurovision Song Contest 36.

Final
The final of the competition took place on 26 February 2015. Five songs that qualified from the each of the previous two semi-finals, all together ten songs, competed. The winner was selected by a combination of the votes from public televoting.

At Own Eurovision Song Contest
Northern Ireland will participate in one of the two semi-finals.