Ireland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö, Sweden. The Irish entry was selected through the national selection Eurosong 2013, organised by Irish national broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). Ryan Dolan represented Ireland with the song "Only Love Survives", which qualified from the first semi-final of the competition and finished in 26th (last) place in the final, only managing to achieve 5 points in total.

In May 2012, broadcaster RTÉ confirmed that Ireland would participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 held in Malmö, Sweden. In October, RTÉ confirmed that Ireland's song and performer would again be chosen by the Eurosong mentor process, first used in 2011.

In November, RTÉ announced the five mentors who would work with contestants in Eurosong 2013: Today FM presenter Mairead Farrell, songwriter Shay Healy, radio presenter Mark McCabe, songwriter Niall Mooney and producer Stuart O’Connor. Three of the judges had previous experience with Eurovision: Shay Healy composed "What's Another Year?", the winning song for Ireland in Eurovision 1980 and contributed lyrics to Latvia's 2012 entry "Beautiful Song"; Niall Mooney co-wrote Irish Eurovision entries "Et Cetera" for Eurovision 2009 and "It's For You" for 2010; and Stuart O'Connor choreographed and produced the Eurovision performances for Jedward in 2011 and 2012.

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