Ryan O'Shaughnessy (born 27 September 1992) is an Irish singer and former actor from Loughshinny, Skerries, Dublin.

In January 2012, he appeared in the inaugurative season of The Voice of Ireland and in May 2012, he took part in sixth series of Britain's Got Talent making it to the final and finishing in fifth place.

Ryan was born in 1992 in Loughshinny, a small village in North County Dublin, Ireland.

In the series, his mother Tess becomes a victim of domestic abuse and is ultimately strangled by her husband Marty who goes on to commit suicide after killing her.

O'Shaughnessy continued to act as Mark Halpin in Fair City for nine years from 2001 to 2010, when he was retired at age 18.

[3] For the battle shows recorded in November 2011 and broadcast in February 2012, Kennedy put him up against teammate Colin Hand.

[4] In the first day of the live shows broadcast on 4 March 2012, he performed "Baby" from Justin Bieber, but was eliminated by public vote finishing in 23/24th place in the series.

After the battle rounds but before the live shows of The Voice of Ireland, O'Shaughnessy auditioned for Britain's Got Talent.

For the final, he performed "No Name" a second time and placed 5th in the competition, with 4.8% of the vote[citation needed] On 19 May 2012, it was announced O'Shaughnessy had signed a record deal with Sony Music.

[9] In July 2013, it was announced that O'Shaughnessy would be one of the artists taking part in the new Irish songwriting competition The Hit, going against his former The Voice coach Brian Kennedy.

On 30 August 2013 O'Shaughnessy, along with the four other chart battle winners, returned to perform their song live in The O2 for the Grand Finale with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

The song and the artist were internally selected in January 2018 by the Irish broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) to represent the country at the 2018 contest in Lisbon, Portugal.

[16][17] A spokesperson for the broadcaster's parent company Hunan TV said they "weren't aware" of the edits made to the programme.

"[19] In October 2018, O'Shaughnessy appeared in the music video for Ireland's Junior Eurovision entry "IOU", performed by Taylor Hynes.