Eurovision Song Contest 1993

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Eurovision Song Contest 1993

Date	15 May 1993
Presenter(s)	Fionnuala Sweeney
Host Conductor	Noel Kelehan
Host Broadcaster	RTE
Venue	Green Glens Arena, Millstreet, Ireland
Winning Song	In Your Eyes (Ireland)
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of Songs	25
Countries Making Debut	Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, & Slovenia
Nul points	None
Interval Act	Linda Martin & Johnny Logan

The Eurovision Song Contest 1993 was the 38th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 15, 1993 in Millstreet, County Cork, Republic of Ireland. The presenter was Fionnuala Sweeney. Niamh Kavanagh was the winner of this Eurovision for Ireland with the song, "In Your Eyes." This was Ireland's fifth victory, and equalled the tally of five Eurovision victories achieved by France in 1977 and Luxembourg in 1983.

In the run-up to this contest, the European Broadcasting Union finally started to grapple with the explosion in the number of potential participating countries, caused by the dissolution of the Eastern bloc, and also by the disintegration of Yugoslavia, which had traditionally been the only communist country that took part in the contest. For the first time, then, a pre-qualifying round was introduced, but only for countries that had either never participated in the contest at all, or in the case of former republics of Yugoslavia, had not previously competed as nations in their own right. This was, however, merely a 'sticking-plaster' measure that was plainly not a sustainable solution for future years, as it would not be seen as remotely equitable. But in the meantime, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania and Estonia were left to battle it out in a special competition called Kvalifikacija za Millstreet in Ljubljana on April 3rd for the mere three places available at the grand final in Millstreet. After some extremely tight voting, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia edged through.

Contents 1 Results 2 Voting structure 3 Score sheet 4 Map

[edit] Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	Translation	Place	Points
1	Italy	Italian	Enrico Ruggeri	Sole d'Europa	Sun Of Europe	12	45
2	Turkey	Turkish	Burak Aydos	Esmer yarim	My Darling Brunette	21	10
3	Germany	German	Münchener Freiheit	Viel zu weit	Much Too Far	18	18
4	Switzerland	French	Annie Cotton	Moi, tout simplement	Quite Simply Myself	3	148
5	Denmark	Danish	Tommy Seebach Band	Under stjernerne på himlen	Under The Stars Of The Sky	22	9
6	Greece	Greek	Keti Garbi	Ellada, hora tou fotos	Greece, Country Of Light	9	64
7	Belgium	Dutch	Barbara Dex	Iemand als jij	Someone Like You	25	3
8	Malta	English	William Mangion	This Time	-	8	69
9	Iceland	Icelandic	Inga	Þá veistu svarið	Then You'll Know The Answer	13	42
10	Austria	German	Tony Wegas	Maria Magdalena	Mary Magdalene	14	32
11	Portugal	Portuguese	Anabela	A cidade (até ser dia)	The City (Until Dawn)	10	60
12	France	French, Corsican	Patrick Fiori	Mama Corsica	-	4	121
13	Sweden	Swedish	Arvingarna	Eloise	-	7	89
14	Republic of Ireland	English	Niamh Kavanagh	In Your Eyes	-	1	187
15	Luxembourg	French, Luxembourgish	Modern Times	Donne-moi une chance	Give Me A Chance	20	11
16	Slovenia	Slovene	1x band	Tih deževen dan	Quiet Rainy Day	22	9
17	Finland	Finnish	Katri Helena	Tule luo	Come To Me	17	20
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnian	Fazla	Sva bol svijeta	All The Pain In The World	16	27
19	United Kingdom	English	Sonia	Better The Devil You Know	-	2	164
20	Netherlands	Dutch	Ruth Jacott	Vrede	Peace	6	92
21	Croatia	Croatian, English	Put	Don't Ever Cry	-	15	31
22	Spain	Spanish	Eva Santamaría	Hombres	Men	11	58
23	Cyprus	Greek	Zimboulakis & Van Beke	Mi stamatas	Don't Stop	19	17
24	Israel	Hebrew, English	Sarah'le Sharon & The Shiru Group	Shiru	Sing	24	4
25	Norway	Norwegian	Silje Vige	Alle mine tankar	All My Thoughts	5	120

[edit] Voting structure

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs.

The voting required a jury to deliberate in the midst of the on-going war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Warm applause rang round the hall as a voice on a crackling phone line was heard to deliver the familiar greeting, "Hello Millstreet, Sarajevo calling".

It looked to be a lost cause for second-placed Sonia of the UK after the penultimate jury voted and left her eleven points behind Niamh Kavanagh. An expectant Irish crowd waited to hear the final jury award anything between one and ten points to either the UK or Ireland, any of which would have made it arithmetically impossible for Ireland to be caught. However, the name of neither country came up, with the ten points instead being rather eccentrically awarded to Luxembourg. This of course meant that either the UK or Ireland must have failed to pick up any points from the final jury, and if it was Sonia that received the maximum twelve points, the seemingly impossible would have happened and the UK would snatch a single-point victory at the death. Instead it was Ireland that were awarded the final points of the evening, finishing with what looked in retrospect a comfortable twenty-three point victory. The audience burst into a spontaneous chant of "ole ole", leaving the unflappable Fionnuala Sweeney to declare with due formality, but with a discernible glint in her eye, that "we have a winner..."

Technical difficulties meant that the Maltese jury gave their votes last.

During the announcement of the scores by the Dutch jury, Sweeney got carried away with the audience's cheers and declared Ireland an additional 12 points when they had just been awarded 10.

[edit] Score sheet

		Juries
	Italy		0	0	1	0	0	0	7	0	0	10	5	0	0	10	0	8	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0
	Turkey	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	1	6	0	0	0
	Germany	8	0		2	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
	Switzerland	10	0	12		10	7	8	5	4	6	1	12	6	7	12	8	4	0	10	8	2	3	6	4	3
	Denmark	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Greece	2	2	2	0	0		0	6	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	5	0	8	12	7	7
	Belgium	0	0	3	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Malta	7	5	4	7	5	5	0		0	4	2	2	4	2	0	0	0	4	6	0	4	4	1	3	0
	Iceland	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	0		1	0	0	7	1	0	5	0	0	2	7	5	0	2	2	2
	Austria	0	4	0	0	0	1	3	0	0		0	3	0	6	0	0	0	12	3	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Portugal	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	2	5		8	2	0	4	0	2	0	1	12	0	12	3	0	5
	France	0	7	0	4	12	3	0	0	8	7	12		8	10	6	4	1	0	4	3	8	0	10	8	6
	Sweden	0	0	8	8	7	0	10	0	7	10	4	0		0	5	6	7	0	7	0	0	0	0	10	0
	Ireland	12	1	5	12	6	6	2	12	3	8	6	10	12		7	12	3	8	12	10	6	10	7	5	12
	Luxembourg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Slovenia	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0		0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Finland	0	3	0	0	0	8	0	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	2	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Bosnia-Herzegovina	3	12	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	0	4	0	3	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	United Kingdom	1	8	6	5	8	0	12	0	12	12	7	6	10	8	8	10	5	3		4	10	5	4	12	8
	Netherlands	6	6	7	0	0	0	7	3	6	3	0	0	5	12	0	7	0	10	0		3	7	0	0	10
	Croatia	0	0	0	3	0	0	4	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0		1	0	6	4
	Spain	5	0	0	6	0	0	5	8	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	6	0	0	7		5	1	1
	Cyprus	0	0	0	0	2	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	0		0	0
	Israel	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0
	Norway	0	10	10	10	0	12	6	0	10	0	8	0	0	5	1	3	12	7	0	6	12	0	8	0
The table is ordered by appearance.

[edit] Map

• Green = Participating countries
• Yellow = Countries who have participated in the past but didn't this year
• Red = Countries who didn't survive the pre-qualifying round