Dana Rosemary Scallon received the nominations of five county councils : Donegal , Kerry , Longford , North Tipperary and Wicklow . Scallon was a singer , the winner of the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest , and a family values campaigner . She was the first candidate in any Irish presidential election to have been nominated by local authorities , rather than by Oireachtas members
1970 Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 1970
1997 Irish presidential election