500 women to strip off for charity
Howard Lake | 13 May 2009 | News
Five hundred women from north west Ireland are to have a skinny dip to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society.
The organisers of the country’s first en masse female skinny dip are calling on 500 Sligo women to strip off to raise money for breast cancer research this summer.
Event organisers have got the green light from the Irish Cancer Society and local authorities and the skinny dip will take place on Sunday, June 21 in Rosses Point in County Sligo. Organisers are looking for 500 women to raise €200 each (a total of €100,000) for the Irish Cancer Society to support breast cancer.
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Speaking to the Sligo Weekender event coordinators Grainne Gilmartin of the Wine Street Wellness Centre and Maire Garvey said: “The event will be fantastic fun, and it’s a great challenge for women of all ages to get involved in. It will be a 100 per cent female event. Rest assured, there will be absolutely no men allowed on the day!”
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