Dolan Eurovision result sets phones hopping

Saturday night’s heartbreaking result for Irish entry Ryan Dolan in the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo turned in their favour immediately after the event, Dolan’s Navan-based manager, Conor Mulhall said.
His phone started ringing with media requests after Ireland’s finished in last place with ‘Only Love Survives’.
Mulhall, of Savee Entertainment, was by Dolan’s side throughout the entire process and described the shock that ran through the Irish camp as they watched the results pour in.
“We were never banking on winning the competition but we definitely thought we would get a top 10 placing. We had a great act and a great song, and we had all put an enormous amount of work into it over the past three months, especially Ryan’s mentor, Stuart O’Connor from Navan, who produced the entire thing.
“It was heartbreaking watching the results come in, and when we saw the likes of Russia and Sweden only giving us one point, we knew we hadn’t a chance. But then as soon as the results were finished my phone started hopping with media requests and I knew straight away this could actually work out in our favour.”
He said the only two acts getting any media attention after the competition were Denmark - “the deserving winners”, and Ireland - “the undeserving losers”.
“Ryan immediately stepped up to the mark, put on a smile and started to embrace the media attention that he was getting. BBC’s Graham Norton even dropped by our dressing room to express his shock at the results, but ironically it has all worked out for the better as Ryan’s Eurovision track is now charting in 18 countries including Australia, and we just found out today that he is top five on Russian radio,” Mulhall said on Tuesday.
Dolan had been highly tipped to finish top five in the competition with his song ‘Only Love Survives’, and his single had charted in four countries prior to Eurovision - the only Eurovision artist to chart in another country prior to the competition.  In the lead up to the competition, Ryan had visited numerous counties across Europe, including Russia, to build up support for his Eurovision bid which saw him attract a lot of media attention and a whole new fan base from various countries.
Conor Mulhall says: “I had meeting’s last week in Sweden with Universal Music Russia and they have now offered Ryan a deal to cover that part of the world. Universal International are meeting with us next week in London to talk about how we handle the rest of the world. Ryan’s debut album ‘Frequency’ which we released last week - and is available from all digital download sites, has also gone through the roof and is currently in the top 20 Irish iTunes pop charts. Ryan will be releasing a new single from the album in the next few weeks, and one or two of the tracks off the album have already been tipped as being a number one summer club anthem!
Conor predicts that there is a huge career ahead for Dolan in the music industry and the Eurovision worked as a perfect platform to raise his profile and get him out there.
“I think it’s a fantastic platform for up and coming artists and despite all the controversy surrounding Ryan’s bizarre placing in the competition, I wouldn’t change one thing and would absolutely do it all again in the morning!” he said.