If there is anything more quintessentially Irish than the Rose of Tralee Festival it is the iconic image of the majestic Cliffs of Moher stretching along the Atlantic coastline of County Clare. The Cliffs of Moher are one of 28 finalists in a contest to find the New 7 Wonders of Nature. Arizona’s Grand Canyon is another. Meanwhile, 32 representatives of Irish & Irish ancestry womanhood are contesting the 2010 Rose of Tralee title which will be awarded on Tuesday night in the town of Tralee, County Kerry.
Danielle McBurnett is representing Arizona in the Rose of Tralee Festival in Ireland and as part of her visit to Ireland she has made not one but two visits to see the Cliffs of Moher. During her first visit, as a guest of the Ennis Twinning Committee, she voted for both the Cliffs of Moher and the Grand Canyon in the New 7 Wonders of Nature campaign.
“I’m delighted to have the chance to see such a spectacular work of nature as the Cliffs of Moher. Both the Cliffs and the Grand Canyon, back home, truly deserve the description of ‘Natural Wonder’. I hope that voters for the Grand Canyon also vote for the Cliffs and vice versa.”
Links between the Cliffs of Moher and Arizona are strong. Clare’s County town of Ennis has been a Sister City to Phoenix for 22 years. A further connection lies in the fact that the First Aid facility at the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience named “Nicolas Room” has benefited from substantial fundraising by Phoenix couple Delia Garcia-Stokes & Kelly Stokes in memory of their baby son Nicolas, whose brief life began and ended at the Cliffs of Moher in 2006.
Danielle, who works as a registered nurse at the Arizona State University Center for Improving Health Outcomes in Children, Teens and Families, visited Nicolas Room in the visitor centre at the Cliffs of Moher. She is pursuing a Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree in order to become a paediatric nurse practitioner. She admired the facility which is used to help hundreds of the almost one million visitors a year to the Cliffs of Moher and which is equipped to the level of a cardiac ambulance.
Her second visit was part of the Rose Tour when all 32 Roses were brought to visit a number of landmarks and key destinations in Ireland before arriving in Tralee. On the occasion of the Rose Tour visit many of Danielle’s fellow Roses also took the opportunity to vote for the Cliffs of Moher including Katie Dunleavy, the New York Rose, Adrienne Hussey, the Texas Rose, Katherine Walsh, the Washington Rose, Mairead Conley, the Philadephia Rose as well as other Roses from North America, Ireland, Europe, Australia and around the globe.
The global online campaign will run till November 2011 and seeks to select seven of the 28 global finalists via popular vote to be crowned the New 7 Wonders of Nature. The original 440 candidates were reduced to 28 in July 2009 and the organisers, Swiss non-profit New 7 Wonders Foundation, expect to collect a total of one billion votes in the campaign overall. Votes can be cast at www.new7wonders.com/n7w
Danielle McBurnett is representing Arizona in the Rose of Tralee Festival in Ireland and as part of her visit to Ireland she has made not one but two visits to see the Cliffs of Moher. During her first visit, as a guest of the Ennis Twinning Committee, she voted for both the Cliffs of Moher and the Grand Canyon in the New 7 Wonders of Nature campaign.
“I’m delighted to have the chance to see such a spectacular work of nature as the Cliffs of Moher. Both the Cliffs and the Grand Canyon, back home, truly deserve the description of ‘Natural Wonder’. I hope that voters for the Grand Canyon also vote for the Cliffs and vice versa.”
Links between the Cliffs of Moher and Arizona are strong. Clare’s County town of Ennis has been a Sister City to Phoenix for 22 years. A further connection lies in the fact that the First Aid facility at the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience named “Nicolas Room” has benefited from substantial fundraising by Phoenix couple Delia Garcia-Stokes & Kelly Stokes in memory of their baby son Nicolas, whose brief life began and ended at the Cliffs of Moher in 2006.
Danielle, who works as a registered nurse at the Arizona State University Center for Improving Health Outcomes in Children, Teens and Families, visited Nicolas Room in the visitor centre at the Cliffs of Moher. She is pursuing a Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree in order to become a paediatric nurse practitioner. She admired the facility which is used to help hundreds of the almost one million visitors a year to the Cliffs of Moher and which is equipped to the level of a cardiac ambulance.
Her second visit was part of the Rose Tour when all 32 Roses were brought to visit a number of landmarks and key destinations in Ireland before arriving in Tralee. On the occasion of the Rose Tour visit many of Danielle’s fellow Roses also took the opportunity to vote for the Cliffs of Moher including Katie Dunleavy, the New York Rose, Adrienne Hussey, the Texas Rose, Katherine Walsh, the Washington Rose, Mairead Conley, the Philadephia Rose as well as other Roses from North America, Ireland, Europe, Australia and around the globe.
The global online campaign will run till November 2011 and seeks to select seven of the 28 global finalists via popular vote to be crowned the New 7 Wonders of Nature. The original 440 candidates were reduced to 28 in July 2009 and the organisers, Swiss non-profit New 7 Wonders Foundation, expect to collect a total of one billion votes in the campaign overall. Votes can be cast at www.new7wonders.com/n7w
