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30 April 1994
Host
Venue
Point Theatre
Dublin, Ireland
Presenter(s)
Cynthia N Mhurch
Gerry Ryan
Conductor
Noel Kelehan
Executive supervisor
Hostbroadcaster
Intervalact
Christian Clausen
Raidi Teilifs ireann (RT)
Riverdance
Participants
Numberofentries
Debutingcountries
Returningcountries
Withdrawingcountries
25
Lithuania
Poland
Russia
None
Belgium
Denmark
Israel
Italy
Luxembourg
Slovenia
Turkey
Vote
Votingsystem
Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Nulpoints
Lithuania
Winningsong
Ireland
"Rock 'n' Roll Kids"
Eurovision Song Contest
1993
1995
The Eurovision Song Contest 1994 was the 39th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 30 April 1994 in the
Point Theatre in Dublin, Ireland. As of 2014, it was the last time the contest was held in April. The presenters were
Cynthia N Mhurch and Gerry Ryan. The pair hosted the evening in French, English and Irish. Paul Harrington and
Charlie McGettigan from Ireland were the winners of this Eurovision with a song written by Brendan Graham,
"Rock 'N' Roll Kids". This was a record sixth victory for Ireland, giving it the outright record number of victories at
the Eurovision Song Contest. It was also the first time and to date the only time that the contest had been won
by the same country in three consecutive years.
The contest opened with a brief film of stars floating in water, fireworks and caricatures dancing around, drinking
coffee and biking. The cameras then went live to the venue itself, where dancers dressed in white and wearing
caricatured heads of well-known Irish figures, arrived on stage carrying European countries flags. The presenters
entered the stage spectacularly from a bridge which descended from the roof of the theatre. This years video
postcards had a literary theme, showing contestants reading, fishing and doing other activities around Ireland. The
stage, by Paula Farrell, was four times larger than the Millstreet stage, and its design which included a city scene of
skyscrapers and video screens plus a backdrop of an ever changing nightsky was based upon the concept of what a
futuristic Dublin might look like with one remaining constant being the river Liffey. Indeed, the floor was painted
with a dark blue reflective paint to give a watery effect.
To cope with the increasing number of countries wishing to participate in the contest, for 1994 the European
Broadcasting Union ruled that the five lowest-placed countries from the preceding year's contest would not
participate. This meant that Belgium, Denmark, Israel, Slovenia and Turkey did not participate this year opening
spaces for the overwhelming amount of new countries. This contest also saw Luxembourg withdraw from
Eurovision indefinitely. Because Italy and Luxembourg withdrew voluntarily, the bottom 6 of the 1993 Contest were
actually relegated.
Poland took part for the first time and caused a scandal when Edyta Grniak broke the rules by singing her song in
English during the dress rehearsal (which is shown to the juries who selected the winner until 1997). Only six
countries demanded that Poland should be disqualified, though the rules required 13 countries to complain before
Poland could be removed from the competition. The proposed removal did not occur and Poland went on to come
2nd in the contest, the highest placing that any country's debut song had ever achieved (even the winner in 1956 was
Switzerland's second song of the night).
For the first time in Eurovision history, voting was done via satellite instead of by telephone, and as a result, viewers
could actually see the spokespersons onscreen.
When the voting started, Hungary took the lead from the first six juries and was well ahead of all the other countries.
However, Ireland powered their way through the score board ending up the winners with a 60 point lead over
second-placed Poland.
The interval act was the first ever performance of the Irish dancing spectacular Riverdance, featuring Michael Flatley
and Jean Butler. Although the costs of producing the 1994 contest was only half of what the previous year cost
Wikipedia:Citation needed, the success of Riverdance ensured that is was by far the most commercially successful
Eurovision ever Wikipedia:Vagueness.
Participating countries
Returning artists
Artist
Country
Previous Year(s)
Evridiki
Cyprus
1992
Sigga
Iceland
Elisabeth Andreassen
Marie Bergman
Results
Draw
Country
Language
Artist
Song
English translation
Place Points
01
Sweden
Swedish
"Stjrnorna"
The stars
13
48
02
Finland
Finnish
CatCat
22
11
03
Ireland
English
226
04
Cyprus
Greek
Evridiki
11
51
05
Iceland
Icelandic
Sigga
"Ntur"
Nights
12
49
06
United Kingdom
English
Frances Ruffelle
10
63
07
Croatia
Croatian
Tony Cetinski
27
08
Portugal
"Chamar a msica"
73
Italian
Duilio
"Sto pregando"
I'm praying
19
15
09
Switzerland
10
Estonia
Estonian
Silvi Vrait
"Nagu merelaine"
Like a seawave
24
11
Romania
Romanian
Dan Bittman
"Dincolo de nori"
21
14
12
Malta
English
97
13
Netherlands
Dutch
Willeke Alberti
"Waar is de zon?"
23
14
Germany
German
MeKaDo
We're throwing a
party
128
15
Slovakia
Slovak
Tublatanka
"Nekonen piese"
Neverending song
19
15
16
Lithuania
"Lopin mylimai"
Lullaby for my
beloved
25
17
Norway
"Duett"
Duet
76
18
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
Bosnian
Stay beside me
15
39
19
Greece
Greek
"To Trehandiri" (
)
The trehandiri
14
44
20
Austria
German
Petra Frey
17
19
21
Spain
Spanish
Alejandro Abad
"Ella no es ella"
18
17
22
Hungary
"Kinek mondjam el
vtkeimet?"
122
23
Russia
Russian
Youddiph
"Vechny strannik" (
)
Eternal wanderer
70
24
Poland
Polish
Edyta Grniak
166
25
France
French
Nina Morato
74
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.
With advances in technology, this was the first contest in which the spokesperson for each national jury appeared
on-screen, live from their own countries.
In the early stages of the voting it looked as if Hungary was surging to victory in its first-ever Eurovision
appearance, winning the maximum twelve points from the first three juries. However, this turned out to be
completely deceptive, as from that point on it was virtually one-way traffic for Ireland, which became the first
country to win the contest for a third year in succession.
Score sheet
Results
Sweden
48
Finland
11
Ireland
51
Iceland
49
United Kingdom
63
Croatia
27
Portugal
73
Switzerland
15
10
10
8
12 10 12 12 12 10
3
6
1
6
5
12 12
1
5
12
12
14
Malta
97
4
12
2
2
10
10
2
1
10
10 10 10 12
10
10 12 10
5
10
5
Romania
Netherlands
226 10
Cyprus
Estonia
6
12
7
4
6
5
Germany
128
Slovakia
15
Lithuania
76
39
Greece
44
Austria
19
Spain
17
10
70
Poland
166
France
74
10 10
12
10
10
12
10 12
12
10
10
2
3
12
122 12 12 12
Russia
12
Norway
Hungary
8
8
12
2
8
12
12
10
6
10
12
6
12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 point in the final:
N. Contestant
Voting nation
Ireland
Poland
Hungary
Germany
Hungary, Romania
Croatia
Slovakia
Cyprus
Greece
Greece
Cyprus
Malta
Portugal
Spain
Slovakia
Malta
International broadcasting
Other involved countries
FR Yugoslavia
After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was last participated in 1992. Third channel
of Radio Television of Serbia broadcast the show, although Yugoslavia did not participate.
Commentators
Television
Radio
Some participating countries didn't provide radio broadcasts for the event, the ones who did are listed below.
Spokespersons
Greece Evangelos Alexandropoulos, Nikolaos Tsolakis, Giorgos Vrouvas, Giorgos Kleftogiorgos, Kosmas
Athousis, Maria Alefanti, Eleftherios Apostolopoulos, Christos Venetidis, Georgia Giannopoulou, Anna Gliati,
Rozy Kasparian, Evgenia Koutsoulieri, Ekaterini Ligoni, Stamatis Panagiotaras, Ourania Papakonstantopoulou,
Archontia Harismidou
Spain Beln Casla (economist), Daniel Santos (Eurovision Network delegate), Purificacin Blanco
(journalist at El Semanal TV), lex Sister (actor), Susana Garca (actress), Andrs Vzquez (bullfighter),
Alejandra Botto (actress), Serafn Zubiri (singer, Spanish entrant at Eurovision Song Contest 1992), Elena
Benarroch (fashion designer), Francisco (singer), Dora Dora (TV hostess), Francisco Herrera[3] (director of
Cadena Dial), Victoria Rodrguez (student), Manuel Litor (businessman), Sofa Balseiro (bank branch manager),
Javier de la Vega (student)
References
[1] It-Eurooppa rynnii Euroviisuihin, Helsingin Sanomat, 30 April 1994
[2] Savvidis, Christos (OGAE Cyprus)
[3] http:/ / toolserver. org/ %7Edispenser/ cgi-bin/ dab_solver. py?page=Eurovision_Song_Contest_1994&
editintro=Template:Disambiguation_needed/ editintro& client=Template:Dn
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