Here's what people thought of Ryan O'Shaughnessy's Eurovision performance

Ryan O'Shaughnessy has performed Ireland's Eurovision entry 'Together' to a broadly positive reception.

The 25-year-old singer-songwriter received a loud ovation from the crowd in Lisbon, where he's one of tonight's 19 semi-final entrants competing for ten final places.

He also received a warm reaction online for the emotional love-story song and dance routine.

Doing us proud tonight Ryan...full of emotion. Cmon #Ireland🇮🇪📺😍 #eurovision pic.twitter.com/GTY1j6uYyk

— Deric (@deric_tv) May 8, 2018

The lyrics

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The stage

I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRYING! Gowan @Ryan_Acoustic !!
🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 #Eurovision pic.twitter.com/BnjccoAlwK

— Today FM 💛 (@TodayFM) May 8, 2018

Ireland challenging the heteronormative narrative one performance at a time! C’mon the boy O’Shaughnessy!!! #Eurovision #IRL

— Mícheál DeBarra (@micheal_debarra) May 8, 2018

I‘m dying because of this cuteness 😭 #IRL #Eurovision

— Niklas🙋🏼‍♂️👑 (@Niklaas_b_) May 8, 2018

I thought Ryan was only brilliant.#Eurovision

— Ireland / (@ireland) May 8, 2018

Cracking job #irl that was a great performance. Deserves to go through, last few songs really strong but it's definitely up there #Eurovision

— Johnny Fallon (@jonnyfallon) May 8, 2018

There were some sceptics though...

Well, if you can’t bring the interesting music, I suppose you can always try for the overacted and gimmicky emotional love story. #eurovision #IRL

— Tim 🦄 (@TRJeffries) May 8, 2018

And someone thought they recognised one of our previous entries on stage...

I genuinely thought that was Jedward on the bridge. My fucking heart.#eurovision

— Shifts (@11shifts11) May 8, 2018