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Sandra Mallon

Wild Youth's song 'wasn't original enough' says ex-Ireland Eurovision finalist Ryan O'Shaughnessy

Ireland's last Eurovision qualifier Ryan O’Shaughnessy has said he’d represent us again at the song contest – if he had a proper marketing campaign.

Ryan O’Shaughnessy qualified for the final in 2018 with his song, Together. The Dubliner – who is set to release his new single The Moment off his new album in June - was the last person to qualify for the Grand Final.

And now the singer said he would consider representing us again after Wild Youth crashed out of the semi-final on Tuesday night – but only if money was invested into his performance. Speaking exclusively to us, Ryan said: “I wouldn’t rule it out if the song was right, if I was able to write the song for it and if I had the word and the budget, let’s say, to make sure there was enough marketing and PR involved and if I was able to pull the right team together.

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