Naked ambition: Fundraiser uncovers local talent

PAULINE LOWNEY’S friends and family signed up straight away when the West Cork woman enquired as to whether they were interested in stripping off for charity.

“Their attitude was: ‘It’s not everyday that somebody asks you to pose partially naked,’” laughs the 65-year-old housewife and mother of three.

And so six of the Clonakilty woman’s closest friends and family members, aged 40 to 72, all headed to Bandon, where coffeeshop queen Mary Rose O’Donovan had offered her Georgian home as a shoot location.