Record bid gives charity a buzz

LIMERICK-based charity Bothar has lined up a fund raising event which could buzz its way into the Guinness Book of Records.

Philip McCabe plans to have a 500,000-bee beard, weighing about 110 lbs, swarm all over his body which will be smothered in honey to attract them.

Mr McCabe, who is president of the Irish Beekeepers Federation, will undertake his buzzarre attempt at a record bee beard in Cahir on June 25. Mr McCabe, 60, who lives in Termonfechin, Co Louth, keeps about six million bees.