sentences:  It was required that the songs submitted needed to be suitable to both Dervish and the contest.Over 200 songs were submitted, and a judging panel (which included Shay Healy, the songwriter the Irish winning song in 1980 "What's Another Year") selected four songs to be performed by Dervish at the national final.The four selected songs were "The Thought of You", a traditional Irish ballad which uses Irish traditional instruments throughout the piece, such as a whistle, a fiddle and a bouzouki; the song was composed by Matti Kallio.