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Ireland in 1992
Linda Martin
Song
Why me
Composer(s)
Johnny Logan
More information
Biography
Linda Martin, already participating for Ireland in 1984 with the Johnny Logan composition Terminal '3', returns to the Eurovision stage this year with another Johnny Logan composition Why Me.
Johnny Logan (born Sean Sherrard in Australia) was the winner of last year's Eurovision Song Contest with Hold Me Now, one of his own compositions. This is the third year Johnny writes the Irish entry, the other years having been 1984 and 1987. Why Me is about his feelings for the woman he loves, especially after the bad years he went through with her, following the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest and that are now in the past. It's the second time a Johnny Logan composition is sung by Linda Martin in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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All Participations for Ireland
| Year | Artist | Song | Points | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 0 | 22 | ||
| 2008 | Dustin the Turkey | Irlande, douze pointe | 22 | 15 |
| 2007 | Dervish | They can't stop the spring | 5 | 24 |
| 2006 | Brian Kennedy | Every song is a cry for love | 93 | 10 |
| 2006 | Brian Kennedy | Every song is a cry for love | 79 | 9 |
| 2005 | Donna and Joseph McCaul | Love? | 53 | 14 |
| 2004 | Chris Doran | If my world stopped turning | 7 | 23 |
| 2003 | Mickey Harte | We’ve got the world | 53 | 11 |
| 2001 | Gary O'Shaughnessy | Without your love | 6 | 21 |
| 2000 | Eamonn Toal | Millennium of love | 92 | 6 |
| 1999 | The Mullan's | When you need me | 18 | 18 |
| 1998 | Dawn | Is always over now? | 64 | 9 |
| 1997 | Marc Roberts | Mysterious woman | 157 | 2 |
| 1996 | Eimear Quinn | The voice | 162 | 1 |
| 1995 | Eddie Friel | Dreamin' | 44 | 14 |
| 1994 | Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan | Rock 'n' roll kids | 226 | 1 |
| 1993 | Niamh Kavanagh | In your eyes | 187 | 1 |
| 1992 | Linda Martin | Why me | 155 | 1 |
| 1991 | Kim Jackson | Could it be that I'm in love | 47 | 10 |
| 1990 | Liam Reilly | Somewhere in Europe | 132 | 2 |
| 1989 | Kiev Connolly and the Missing Passengers | The real me | 21 | 18 |
| 1988 | Jump the Gun | Take him home | 79 | 8 |
| 1987 | Johnny Logan | Hold me now | 172 | 1 |
| 1986 | Luv Bug | You can count on me | 96 | 4 |
| 1985 | Maria Christian | Wait until the weekend comes | 91 | 6 |
| 1984 | Linda Martin | Terminal '3' | 137 | 2 |
| 1982 | The Duskeys | Here today, gone tomorrow | 49 | 11 |
| 1981 | Sheeba | Horoscopes | 105 | 5 |
| 1980 | Johnny Logan | What's another year | 143 | 1 |
| 1979 | Cathal Dunne | Happy man | 80 | 5 |
| 1978 | Colm T. Wilkinson | Born to sing | 86 | 5 |
| 1977 | The Swarbriggs Plus Two | It's nice to be in love again | 119 | 3 |
| 1976 | Red Hurley | When | 54 | 10 |
| 1975 | The Swarbriggs | That's what friends are for | 68 | 9 |
| 1974 | Tina | Cross your heart | 11 | 7 |
| 1973 | Maxi | Do I dream? | 80 | 10 |
| 1972 | Sandie Jones | Ceol on ghrá | 72 | 15 |
| 1971 | Angela Farrell | One day love | 79 | 11 |
| 1970 | Dana | All kinds of everything | 32 | 1 |
| 1969 | Muriel Day and the Lindsays | The wages of love | 10 | 7 |
| 1968 | Pat McGeegan | Chance of a lifetime | 18 | 4 |
| 1967 | Sean Dunphy | If I could choose | 22 | 2 |
| 1966 | Dickie Rock | Come back to stay | 14 | 4 |
| 1965 | Butch Moore | I'm walking the streets in the rain | 11 | 6 |
