Without Your Love (Gary O'Shaughnessy song)

Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Ireland "Without Your Love"


caption =
year = 2001
country = Ireland
artist = Gary O'Shaughnessy
as =
with =
language = English
languages =
composer = Pat Sheridan
lyricist = Pat Sheridan
place = 21st
points = 6
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?2001ie from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip =
prev = Millennium Of Love
prev_link = Millennium Of Love
next = We've Got The World
next_year = 2003
next_link = We've Got The World

"Without Your Love" was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001, performed in English by Gary O'Shaughnessy.

The song is a ballad, with O'Shaughnessy telling his lover that he doesn't want to live his life without her. He tells her, for example, that "You're the light in the dark".

The song was performed twelfth on the night, following Portugal's MTM with "Só Sei Ser Feliz Assim" and preceding Spain's David Civera with "Dile Que La Quiero". At the close of voting, it had received 6 points, placing 21st in a field of 23.

With the rapid expansion of the Contest, entry to the 2002 Contest was restricted to those countries with the best records over the previous five years. In a striking turnaround from Ireland's dominance (with four wins) in the early to mid 1990s, their five-yearly performance was not successful enough to qualify for this Contest. Ireland did, however, broadcast the Contest despite not entering - thus being termed a "passive participant" and earning a return to the fold at the next Contest.

The song was thus succeeded as Republic of Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest Irish representative at the 2003 Contest by Mickey Harte with "We've Got The World".