The website for the Irish Hospice Foundation crashed last night when Victoria Beckham tweeted a link to the charity after receiving a gift from Bono for baby Harper of a book he did in aid of the charity in 2003.
Victoria Beckham tweeted: “Thanks Bono and Ali for Harper's supercool Peter and the Wolf book!” The fashion designer then gave a link to the book cover and tweeted a link to the Irish Hospice Foundation website to her two and a half million Twitter followers. The Irish Hospice Foundation tweeted the designer “We hope you and David enjoy reading it to Harper.”
Caroline Lynch of the Irish Hospice Foundation confirmed that after the fashion designer tweeted the link and it was retweeted on Twitter, the charity’s website crashed under the high volume of traffic from people trying to get onto the site and find out about the book. “The site went down from the number of people who were trying to get on and make enquiries.” she said.
The book produced in 2003 by Bono and Gavin Friday contains 64 pages of Bono's original paintings and illustrations from his daughters Jordan and Eve. Since 2003, Peter and the Wolf has raised €993,006 for the hospice foundation. The charity is hoping the Beckham tweet will help them to raise the additional €7000 needed to bring them over the €1 million mark.
For details of the book conact: 01 679 31 88 or email fundraising@hospice-foundation.ie to place an order.
- Independent.ie reporters
http://www.independent.ie
2 comments:
As always, great information, excellent job of disclosure by the blog. congratulations
Thanks Sergio,we want to show our love to the great Irish band not only by posting about their work and whereabouts but also promote all good causes U2-related. It´s a work of love, we´d like to think!!!
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