The Camphill centre in Dún Síon is almost €2,000 better off this week thanks to three local men who managed to coax people into paying them to shave off their beards.
Diarmuid Mac a' tSaoir, Thomas O'Connor and Patrick Neylon never wanted the beards in the first place; they just grew by accident, or as Thomas admitted "out of pure laziness".
However, the laziness was cast aside after Diarmuid came up with the idea of turning the long neglected shave into a fundraiser for Camphill and all three put their weight behind the effort.
Hairdresser Rebecca Hennessy carried out the public shearing outside Fitzgerald's hardware on Sunday afternoon and in a matter of minutes she excavated the faces of Diarmuid Mac a' tSaoir, Thomas O'Connor and Patrick Neylon from beneath their shaggy beards.