When You Need Me (The Mullans Song)
The Mullans represented Ireland in the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem with the song "When You Need Me". Before Eurovision Eurosong 1999 Eurosong 1999 was the national final format developed by RTÉ in order to select Ireland's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 1999. The competition was held at the RTÉ Television Centre in Dublin on 7 March 1999 and hosted by Pat Kenny. Eight artists and songs were selected to compete which were presented on 9 January 1999 on the RTÉ programme ''Kenny Live''. Regional televoting determined the winner and after the combination of votes, "When You Need Me" performed by the Mullans was selected as the winner. At Eurovision The Mullans performed 17th in the running order on the night of the contest, a draw on which three previous Irish entries had won ("What's Another Year?" in 1980, " Why Me?" in 1992 and "The Voice" in 1996). Despite taking an early lead with twelve points from the first voting country Lithuania, "When You ...
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The Mullans
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ...
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