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Adrian Kavanagh, 15th May 2016

Ireland finished in 15th place in the second Eurovision Semi Final with 46 points – the last country to qualify, Serbia, finished with 105 points. Australia won this semi-final with 330 points, followed by Ukraine on 287 points in second place and Belgium on 274 points in third place.

How did Ireland fare with the (other) countries who were voting in this semi-final? Based on the details provided from the official Eurovision website, we can see that Ireland were ranked accordingly by the other 20 countries who were voting in our semi-final:

• Albania: Ranked 15th in Jury Vote. Ranked 13th in Televote. No points
• Australia: Ranked 16th in Jury Vote. Ranked 4th in Televote. No Jury points. 7 Televote points
• Belarus: Ranked 16th in Jury Vote. Ranked 14th in Televote. No points
• Belgium: Ranked 14th in Jury Vote. Ranked 7th in Televote. No Jury points. 4 Televote points
• Bulgaria: Ranked 13th in Jury Vote. Ranked 14th in Televote. No points
• Denmark: Ranked 7th in Jury Vote. Ranked 7th in Televote. 4 Jury points**. 4 Televote points
• FYR Macedonia: Ranked 13th in Jury Vote. Ranked 15th in Televote. No points
• Georgia: Ranked 13th in Jury Vote. Ranked 15th in Televote. No points
• Germany: Ranked 16th in Jury Vote. Ranked 11th in Televote. No points
• Israel: Ranked 9th in Jury Vote. Ranked 10th in Televote. 2 Jury points. 1 Televote point
• Italy: Ranked 9th in Jury Vote. Ranked 14th in Televote. 2 Jury points. No Televote points
• Latvia: Ranked 12th in Jury Vote. Ranked 10th in Televote. No Jury points. 1 Televote point
• Lithuania: Ranked 15th in Jury Vote. Ranked 10th in Televote. No Jury points. 1 Televote point
• Norway: Ranked 8th in Jury Vote. Ranked 9th in Televote. 3 Jury points. 2 Televote points
• Poland: Ranked 15th in Jury Vote. Ranked 9th in Televote. No Jury points. 2 Televote points
• Serbia: Ranked 16th in Jury Vote. Ranked 17th in Televote. No points
• Slovenia: Ranked 13th in Jury Vote. Ranked 11th in Televote. No points
• Switzerland: Ranked 15th in Jury Vote. Ranked 9th in Televote. No Jury points. 2 Televote points
• Ukraine: Ranked 9th in Jury Vote. Ranked 13th in Televote. 2 Jury points. No Televote points
• United Kingdom: Ranked 9th in Jury Vote. Ranked 4th in Televote. 2 Jury points. 7 Televote points

Ireland won 31 points in the televote (with 7 points coming from both the United Kingdom and Australia televotes), finishing in 14th place (out of 18 countries) in the televote overall (which was won by Ukraine on 152 points). Ireland won 15 points in the jury vote (with 4 points coming from the Danish jury), finishing in 17th place (out of 18 countries) in the jury vote overall (which was won by Australia on 188 points). Ireland had an average ranking of 12.6 across the twenty (other) voting juries in this semi-final, while Ireland had an average ranking of 11.0 across the twenty (other) televotes in this semi-final. (Had the results of this semi-final been solely based on the televote, Belarus and FYR Macedonia would have qualified in place of Israel and Georgia. Had the results of this semi-final been solely based on the jury vote, Slovenia would have qualified in place of Poland.)

** As reported on the WiwiBloggs site (16th May 2016), one of the Danish jury members made a mistake with her rankings accidentally giving her highest rankings to her least favourite acts, and the lowest rankings to her favourite acts. Ironically, she should have given her highest ranking to Ireland’s Nicky Byrne, but the mistake meant that he, instead, got her lowest ranking. If this mistake had not occurred, he would have been ranked 3rd by the Denmark jury (instead of 7th) and got 8 points, instead of 4 points. This would have left Ireland on 50 points overall, but would not have been enough to make up the gap on 14th placed Slovenia (who would have remained on 57 points.)

Lithuania won the Irish televote in this semi final (12 points), with Poland ranked in second place (10 points), Australia in third (8 points), Latvia in fourth (7 points) and Belgium in fifth (6 points). The other countries to win points from the Irish televote were Bulgaria (5), Ukraine (4), Denmark (3), Israel (2) and Belarus (1).

Belgium won the Irish jury vote in this semi final (12 points), with Bulgaria ranked in second place (10 points), Slovenia in third (8 points), Israel in fourth (7 points) and Australia in fifth (6 points). The other countries to win points from the Irish jury vote were Switzerland (5), Latvia (4), Lithuania (3), Belarus (2) and Georgia (1).

Lithuania won the Irish televote in the Final (12 points) with Poland ranked in second place (10 points), Russia in third (8 points), Latvia in fourth (7 points) and Australia in fifth (6 points). The other countries to win points from the Irish televote were Bulgaria (5), Ukraine (4), United Kingdom (3),Sweden (2) and Austria (1).

Belgium won the Irish jury vote in the Final (12 points), with Bulgaria ranked in second place (10 points), The Netherlands in third (8 points), United Kingdom in fourth (7 points) and Italy in fifth (6 points). The other countries to win points from the Irish jury vote were Sweden (5), Israel (4), France (3), Czech Republic (2) and Latvia (1).

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