What's Another Year was the Irish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 written by Shay Healy and performed by Johnny Logan. The ballad told the story of a man who has been waiting for the girl of his dreams to fall in love with him, in real life Shay wrote it as he watched his father come to terms with the death of his wife. In the contest, it was performed seventeenth on the night following France and preceding Spain. At the close of voting, it received 143 points and was declared the winner, giving Ireland its second Eurovision win.