Miss Ireland gets majestic send-off to Beijing

FOR once Chris de Burgh had to stay in the shadows but he wasn’t complaining last night as he watched his beautiful daughter, Miss Ireland Rosanna Davidson, get a majestic send-off to the Miss World contest in China.

The glittering goodbye took place at the Nemo Bar and Café in Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin. The bar, which first entered Rosanna in the Miss Dun Laoghaire contest, hosted a ‘Bon Voyage’ Party before Ireland’s entrant jets off to Beijing tomorrow.

As it was her last public appearance on home ground before the contest, Rosanna modelled some of the evening dresses she will be wearing throughout her trip to China. Her three-week stay will take in the cities of Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai.