Ireland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020

Ireland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Lesley Roy was internally selected by the Irish Broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) with the song "Story of My Life", written by Lesley Roy, Robert Marvin, Catt Gravitt and Tom Shapiro

Background
Prior to the 2020 Contest, Ireland had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 52 times since its first entry in 1965. Ireland has won the contest a record seven times in total. The country's first win came in 1970, with then-18-year-old Dana winning with "All Kinds of Everything". Ireland holds the record for being the only country to win the contest three times in a row (in 1992, 1993 and 1994), as well as having the only three-time winner (Johnny Logan, who won in 1980 as a singer, 1987 as a singer-songwriter, and again in 1992 as a songwriter). In 2011 and 2012, Jedward represented the nation for two consecutive years, managing to qualify to the final both times and achieve Ireland's highest position in the contest since 2000, placing eighth in 2011 with the song "Lipstick". However, in 2013, despite managing to qualify to the final, Ryan Dolan and his song "Only Love Survives" placed last in the final. The Irish entries in 2014, "Heartbeat" performed by Can-Linn featuring Kasey Smith, in 2015, "Playing with Numbers" performed by Molly Sterling, in 2016 "Sunlight" performed by Nicky Byrne, and in 2017 "Dying to Try" performed by Brendan Murray all failed to qualify to the final. Ireland once again qualified for the final in 2018 with the song Together performed by Ryan O'Shaughnessy, placing 16th in the grand final.

Internal selection
On 5 March 2020, RTÉ announced Lesley Roy as the Irish entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with the song Story of My Life.

At Eurovision
According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big 5" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 28 January 2020, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Ireland was placed into the first semi-final, to be held on 12 May 2020, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.

Split Voting Results
The following five members comprised the Irish jury:


 * Juror 1:
 * Juror 2:
 * Juror 3:
 * Juror 4:
 * Juror 5: