How Ireland voted in the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest – and which countries gave Bambie Thug points

Ireland’s Bambie Thug came sixth, after receiving 142 points from the juries and 136 from the public.

But who did we vote for – and who voted for us?

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Here is how Ireland voted in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest:

Ireland’s public vote

Starting with the televote, Irish viewers gave douze points to Croatia, who were tipped as one of the favourites to win last night’s contest.

With their song, Rim Tim Tagi Dim performed by Baby Lasagna, Croatia came second overall in the competition.

Despite criticism of their participation, including from Ireland’s Bambie Thug, the Irish public gave Israel’s Eden Golan, with the song Hurricane, 10 points. Israel came fifth overall in the contest.

Next, Irish voters gave Ukraine eight points. Their entry Teresa and Maria, performed by alyona alyona and Jerry Heil came third in the competition last night.

Ireland gave seven points to Lithuania but only gave six points to winners Switzerland in the televote.

Ireland gave Latvia five points, four to France, three to Finland and Spain were awarded two points. Ireland gave Italy one point.

Ireland’s jury vote

Ireland’s jury vote was quite different to the Irish public’s choices.

Last night, the Irish jury award 12 points to Nemo for Switzerland.

Next, Ireland’s 10 points went to the Eurovision hosts, Sweden. Their entry, Unforgettable by identical twins Marcus and Martinus came in 9th place overall.

Eight points were awarded to Luxembourg, who took part in the song contest for the first time in 31 years.

The Irish jury gave seven points to Croatia’s Baby Lasagna, while six points went to Germany with its song Always On The Run which was performed by ISAAK. Overall, Germany came 12th.

Five points went to Portugal and four were awarded to the United Kingdom, who had a disappointing result last night.

Receiving just 46 points from the jury vote and no votes from the televoting, the UK’s Olly Alexander came 18th in the competition.

Finally, Ireland’s jury awarded France, three points, Ukraine, two points and Serbia, one point.

Now… who voted for Ireland?

A detailed breakdown of the points awarded to Ireland’s Bambie Thug in the competition have also been released.

Ireland came sixth in Saturday’s contest, the best result an Irish entry has seen in years. With a total of 278 points awarded for Doomsday Blue, Bambie Thug received just one 12 point score, which came from the Australian jury vote.

Overall, Ireland received 142 points from the juries in participating countries, which kept Bambie Thug high on the scoreboard early on in the voting section of the show and kept the entry comfortably in the top 10 throughout the final part of Saturday’s show.

Six juries gave Ireland 10 points; Azerbaijan, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and Italy.

While the Croatian jury gave Doomsday Blue eight points, juries from Czechia, Iceland, Malta, United Kingdom, Denmark and San Marino gave Ireland seven points.

Finland’s jury awarded Bambie Thug six points, Belgium’s jury gave us four points and Lithuania and Austria gave three each.

Serbia’s jury gave Ireland’s entry two points and Slovenia and Poland awarded one point each.

A total of 15 juries did not award Ireland any points, including Germany, France, Israel and Netherlands, who were disqualified from the contest but were still allowed to vote.

In the public vote, Ireland received 136 points.

Only five counties did not give Ireland any points in the public vote; Albania, France, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Israel.

Ireland also did not receive any 12 point scores in the televote, although Bambie Thug did get 10 points from the United Kingdom.

The Australian and Ukrainian public gave Ireland eight points each and Spain and Serbia awarded Ireland seven points.

The “rest of the world” vote, which is a combination of audiences voting online from non-participating countries, also gave Ireland seven points.

Czechia, Netherlands and Poland gave Bambie Thug six points and audiences in Croatia, Finland, Lithuania and Portugal awarded Ireland five points.

Five countries including Azerbaijan, Malta and Sweden gave Doomsday Blue four points in the public vote while three points each came from Denmark, Iceland, Italy and Latvia.

Estonia, Greece and Slovenia were among nine countries to give Ireland two points each, while the German audience were the only country to give Ireland just one point.