Tourism Ireland, in conjunction with Fáilte Ireland and TVNZ, sponsored a competition for television viewers with Irish ancestry. The competition attracted over 2,000 entries, and was won by a young New Zealand born woman with ancestral roots in Counties Louth, Armagh and Tyrone. Her prize was a trip to the Irish ancestral homelands, and included a two night stay at the Shelbourne Renaissance Hotel in Dublin, where the winner, Melissa, met with Helen Kelly, the hotel’s Genealogy Butler. In summing up her trip, Melissa stated that meeting with cousins at two surprise dinners was all way beyond her widest dreams for the trip, and that among the most moving moments for her was getting her grandfather’s birth certificate during her Dublin stay. Five short clips of Melissa’s trip were shown on a breakfast programme aired by TVNZ in late June.