Ireland: Patrick O'Sullivan releases his entry “One Night, One Kiss, One Promise” for the 'Eurosong 2022' selection

Ireland: Patrick O'Sullivan releases his entry “One Night, One Kiss, One Promise” for the 'Eurosong 2022' selection
Thursday, 20 January 2022

  • The fifth competing entry of the Irish national selection for Eurovision has been released, as Patrick O'Sullivan has dropped his song “One Night, One Kiss, One Promise”.

    The fifth entry that will be competing in the Irish national selection for Eurovision 2022 has gone public, with the song by Patrick O'Sullivan presented during the radio show  Ryan Tubridy Show on RTÉ Radio 1.

    For the next Eurovision RTE has opted for a televised national final in order to select the Irish ESC 2022 hopeful, marking the country's return to a national selection since 2015. From 320 submitted songs a special panel of experts shorlisted six acts that will compete for the right to represent Ireland.

    The six contestants will compete in a special edition of The Late Late Show on February 4. The outcome of the Irish selection for Turin will be determined by public voting, a national jury and for the first time  an international jury.

    The fifth of the entries was released today with the last sixth entry to go public tomorrow, January 21. 

     

    Patrick O'Sullivan - “One Night, One Kiss, One Promise”.

    Accomplished singer and performer Patrick O'Sullivan is 27 years old that hails from Cork. He's got a degree in Musical Theatre from The Arts Educational Schools in London on a full scholarship awarded to him by the college principal, Andrew Lloyd Webber.

    Following his graduation in 2015, Patrick  starred in the European premiere of Carrie - The Musical in London’s West End. He has also performed with The Book of Mormon, The Wind in The Willows, and Doctor Dolittle and worked directly with Meat Loaf on the production of Bat Out of Hell - The Musical.

    In late 2021, he took part in the RTÉ singing show, Last Singer Standing. His performance of Cher’s Believe in the grand finale received massive praise from the show’s panellists, Nadine Coyle, Joey Fatone, and Samantha Mumba. In December 2021, Patrick released a charity Christmas single, The Hour Before Christmas in aid of The RTÉ Toy Show Appeal.

    His entry “One Night, One Kiss, One Promise” has been co- composed by Nicky Byrne, Lar Kaye and Danny O'Reilly.

     

    Ireland in Eurovision

    Ireland is a country of records when it comes to the Eurovison Song Contest. It has participated 54 times since making its debut at the 1965 contest in Naples and has won the competition 7 times, more than any other country. (1970, 1980, 1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996). It is the only country that has won the contest three successive years (1992, 1993, 1994) while Dublin is the only city to have hosted the event two consecutive years. (1994,1995).

    During the decade of 90’s the country had a row of 4 vicotries in a 5 year time  (1993, 1994, 1995 and 1997) and Dublin became host city three times.Irish act Johnny Logan is the only one to have won the contest twice (1980, 1987).

    In 2018 the country selected internally  Ryan O’Shaughnessy to represent the country with his song Together, which finished 16th in the grand final, marking the country's first qualification to the final since 2013. In 2019 internally selected  Sarah McTernan represented the country with her entry “22” which failed to qualify to the grand final.

    Lesley Roy was selected to represent the nation in Rotterdam for Eurovision 2020 with the song "Story of my life" but never reached the stage as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Lesley was reinvited for the 2021 edition in Rotterdam where she performed "Maps" which sadly finished in the last place of the 1st Semi Final. 

     

    News Source: RTE

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