Is Always Over Now?

Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Ireland Is Always Over Now?


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year = 1998
country = Ireland
artist = Dawn Martin
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language = English
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composer = Gerry Morgan
lyricist = Gerry Morgan
conductor = Noel Kelehan
place = 9th
points = 64
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lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1998ie from Diggiloo Thrush]
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prev = Mysterious Woman
prev_link = Mysterious Woman
next = When You Need Me
next_link = When You Need Me

Is Always Over Now? was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, performed in English by Dawn Martin.

The song is a ballad, sung from the perspective of a woman at the end of a relationship. She tells her former lover that "Always, you said, was me and you", and thus wonders "Is always over now?/Does it never last that long?"

The song was performed thirteenth on the night (following Slovenia's Vili Resnik with Naj Bogovi Slišijo and preceding Portugal's Alma Lusa with Se Eu Te Pudesse Abraçar). At the close of voting, it had received 64 points, placing 9th in a field of 25.

This was the "swan song" of Noel Kelehan in Eurovision. This conductor accompanied 29 Eurovision songs, among which 24 were Irish entries. No one ever participated on more occasions in Eurovision (and with the abolition of orchestras, probably no one ever will). He conducted no less than five winning songs.

It was succeeded as Irish representative at the 1999 Contest by The Mullans with When You Need Me.