At Eurovision
Since Ireland is not one of the "Big Four" and is not the host of the 2009 contest, it had to compete in one of the two semi-finals. Sinéad and Black Daisy competed in the second semi-final on 14 May, where they performed second in the running order, following Croatia and preceding Latvia. The group failed to qualify Ireland to the final for the second consecutive time.
In the final of the contest, the Irish votes will be presented by Irish TV personality Derek Mooney, who previously did the same in 2000. RTÉ had released the names of the five jurors which will make up half of the Irish votes in the final, along with televoting. They are former Eurovision winners Linda Martin (ESC 1992) and Paul Harrington (ESC 1994), producer Bill Hughes, singer and TV personality Emma O'Driscoll and singer/songwriter Luan Parle.
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