Bare-faced cheek or hope for tough times?

THERE seemed no way of dressing it up — putting a near-nude cowboy among crowds of shoppers on a biting cold day was surely nothing more than a cynical publicity stunt.

No ma’am, that was not the case at all. Robert Burck, better known as the Naked Cowboy, was here on a mission.

“I’m here to show the Irish people that if you have an idea and you believe in it strong enough and you work at it hard enough, you can achieve anything. Ma’am.”