D Friday, October 30, 2009 METRO With the 50c City Centre Fare from Dublin Bus, you can pop around town in no time for a coffee or two with friends. This Fare is valid within a special City Centre Zone - just ask the driver for a City Centre Fare when you board any bus where you see the pink sign, stating your destination within the City Centre Zone*. Thanks to improved bus priority including the College Green Bus Corridor and QBCs, transport into and around Dublin City has never been quicker. Available where you see this sign. For full details on the City Centre Fare see www.dublinbus.ie Get the bus and a skinny mocha-chino-whatever with the City Centre Fare. *Excluding Nitelink, Airlink, Xpresso services, flat fare services, Ferry services, Tours, Special Events and Private Contract services. www.dublinbus.ie Fair city: Model Jenny Lee Masterson reveals the most popular purchase among tourists visiting Carrolls gift shops is... postcards Picture: Photocall Sport is why people come to our fair city FORGET the sexy accent: its actually sport which attracts most people to Dublin. The DIT Tourism Research Centre has found that sporting events are the main reason Irish people travel to the capital. Those living outside the greater Dublin area (Dublin, Meath, Kildare, Wicklow) visit Dublin on average five times per year. After sport, visiting friends and relatives (20 per cent), shopping (16 per cent), attending a music concert (11 per cent) and business trips (seven per cent) make up the top five motivations to visit. Two in five Irish people say they plan to visit the countrys No.1 visitor attraction, the Guinness Storehouse, which attracts more than 1million visitors every year. A wad of cash: World Visions John Kelly with the donation Charity thanks generous donor of 2,760 raffle winBY ROSS McDONAGHAN ANONYMOUS donor to a charity won a raffle and used their winnings to make a change to the lives of African children, staff at the aid agency believe. World Vision Ireland is appealing to the person who sent it 2,760 in cash in the post to make them- selves known, so it can thank him or her for the remarkable gesture. Besides the stack of notes, the envelope contained nothing that could help staff identify its source except for a mysterious raffle ticket. Surprised employee John Kelly opened the enve- lope. He said: I couldnt believe my eyes. There was a huge wad of 50 notes, without a letter or note or anything just a raffle ticket, he said. Its incredible. Its restored my faith in people thats for sure. The postmark on the envelope was too faded to identify, but staff believe one lucky punter must have won the sum in a raffle and decided to anony- mously donate the prize to charity. World Vision Irelands chief executive Helen Keogh said: We dont know who sent the money so we cant thank them personally but we are so grateful. Its fantastic to see such generosity despite the recession. During Live Aid in the 80s, we proved we were a giving nation. This proves its still the case today. The charity, which raises most of its money through child sponsorship, say the money can be used to buy hundreds of potentially life-saving mosquito nets, or vaccinations for children. This amount of money will definitely change lives, it said. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html