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“If I Could Choose”

Sean Dunphy

Language: English
Written by: Michael Coffey, Wesley Burrowes
Conductor: Noel Kelehan
Broadcaster: RTÉ
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In context

How good was it, really?

20% of the most it could have scored in the final (22 of 112)

#623 of 1,461 final results ever on that share

3rd entry for Ireland: its best result yet

The share compares eras fairly: points divided by the most one song could have scored that night, meaning the top mark from every other country. Before 1975 the top mark is the most any jury gave one song that year.

Where the points came from

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Final

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2ndof 17

22points

17in the running order

Points received

4 🇩🇪 Germany
3 🇦🇹 Austria
3 🇧🇪 Belgium
2 🇫🇮 Finland
2 🇲🇨 Monaco
2 🇸🇪 Sweden
2 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
1 🇮🇹 Italy
1 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
1 🇵🇹 Portugal
1 🌍 Yugoslavia

11 countries gave points, 0 of them the top mark.

What Ireland gave

2 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
2 🇸🇪 Sweden
1 🇧🇪 Belgium
1 🇫🇷 France
1 🇩🇪 Germany
1 🇮🇹 Italy
1 🇳🇱 Netherlands
1 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

On the scoreboard around it

1 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · “Puppet on a String” 47
2 🇮🇪 Ireland · “If I Could Choose” 22
3 🇫🇷 France · “Il doit faire beau là-bas” 20
4 🇱🇺 Luxembourg · “L'amour est bleu” 17