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.