Ireland 's seven wins were achieved by Dana with "All Kinds of Everything '' (1970), Johnny Logan with "What 's Another Year '' (1980) and "Hold Me Now '' (1987), Linda Martin with "Why Me '' (1992), Niamh Kavanagh with "In Your Eyes '' (1993), Paul Harrington and Charlie McGettigan with "Rock ' n ' Roll Kids '' (1994) and Eimear Quinn with "The Voice '' (1996). Johnny Logan is the only performer to have won twice and also wrote the 1992 winning entry. Ireland, who also finished second with Sean Dunphy (1967), Linda Martin (1984), Liam Reilly (1990) and Marc Roberts (1997), has a total of 18 top five results.
who won the first eurovision song contest for ireland
Dana