With only days to go before the voting closes for the ‘New Seven Wonders of Nature’, the Cliffs of Moher got the thumbs up from the Republic of Ireland Senior Team Manager, Giovanni Trapattoni, who visited the tourist attraction this week.
Commenting on Ireland’s only nominated site for the New Seven Wonders of Nature, Mr Trapattoni said “I have heard a lot about the Cliffs and I am delighted to be able to visit and see it in its splendour first hand. I know that the Cliffs of Moher has been part of a long campaign to achieve the status of one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature and I and the FAI fully support Ireland in trying to achieve this designation. I am very familiar with long campaigns and hope that November can be a month when Ireland achieves success in both the Euro 2012 play offs and the New Seven Wonders of Nature campaign.”
The cliffs, which are 712 feet at their highest point, stretch along the coast for five miles. The sheer rock face of the cliffs is lined with multicolours of shale and sandstone and for generations local people quarried there for their houses from a now disused quarry which lies perilously close to the edge. Geraldine Enright, Marketing Manager at the visitor centre said: “We have rangers who regularly patrol the cliffs because sometimes there can be serious erosion, last year we had two heavy cliff falls.”
O‘Brien’s Tower stands on one of the headlands of the cliffs and was built by Cornelius O’Brien, a descendent of Brian Boru, in 1835. It was built as an observation tower for the hundreds of tourists who used to visit the site even then. The iconic County Clare landmark was short listed in the New Seven Wonders of Nature competition along with 27 other sites from 440 participants.
Councillor Pat Hayes, Mayor of Clare stated “We very much appreciate the strong support of the FAI in the bid of the Cliffs of Moher to be successful in this campaign. I am particularly delighted that Giovanni Trapattoni and Marco Tardelli, Assistant Manager, have taken time out to honour us with a visit in advance of the conclusion of the vote, with just days to go. If everybody gets behind the cliffs now in the final stage of the campaign we stand a great chance of being successful. It would be a tremendous achievement and would bring major benefit to Ireland in the years ahead. I encourage everybody to do everything they can in the final few days to support the Cliffs of Moher. Every vote will count so spread the word to your friends and relations worldwide.”
Mark Dunphy from Dunphy PR said “Other entries include the Grand Canyon, Ayers Rock, Amazon Rain Forest, Kilimanjaro and Table Mountain in Cape Town.
The official New Seven Wonders of Nature list, which is subject to a new worldwide poll will be declared on 11-11-11. Competition 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. or by texting moher to 53131.
Commenting on Ireland’s only nominated site for the New Seven Wonders of Nature, Mr Trapattoni said “I have heard a lot about the Cliffs and I am delighted to be able to visit and see it in its splendour first hand. I know that the Cliffs of Moher has been part of a long campaign to achieve the status of one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature and I and the FAI fully support Ireland in trying to achieve this designation. I am very familiar with long campaigns and hope that November can be a month when Ireland achieves success in both the Euro 2012 play offs and the New Seven Wonders of Nature campaign.”
The cliffs, which are 712 feet at their highest point, stretch along the coast for five miles. The sheer rock face of the cliffs is lined with multicolours of shale and sandstone and for generations local people quarried there for their houses from a now disused quarry which lies perilously close to the edge. Geraldine Enright, Marketing Manager at the visitor centre said: “We have rangers who regularly patrol the cliffs because sometimes there can be serious erosion, last year we had two heavy cliff falls.”
O‘Brien’s Tower stands on one of the headlands of the cliffs and was built by Cornelius O’Brien, a descendent of Brian Boru, in 1835. It was built as an observation tower for the hundreds of tourists who used to visit the site even then. The iconic County Clare landmark was short listed in the New Seven Wonders of Nature competition along with 27 other sites from 440 participants.
Councillor Pat Hayes, Mayor of Clare stated “We very much appreciate the strong support of the FAI in the bid of the Cliffs of Moher to be successful in this campaign. I am particularly delighted that Giovanni Trapattoni and Marco Tardelli, Assistant Manager, have taken time out to honour us with a visit in advance of the conclusion of the vote, with just days to go. If everybody gets behind the cliffs now in the final stage of the campaign we stand a great chance of being successful. It would be a tremendous achievement and would bring major benefit to Ireland in the years ahead. I encourage everybody to do everything they can in the final few days to support the Cliffs of Moher. Every vote will count so spread the word to your friends and relations worldwide.”
Mark Dunphy from Dunphy PR said “Other entries include the Grand Canyon, Ayers Rock, Amazon Rain Forest, Kilimanjaro and Table Mountain in Cape Town.
The official New Seven Wonders of Nature list, which is subject to a new worldwide poll will be declared on 11-11-11. Competition 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. or by texting moher to 53131.
