Birthday suitbathers raise cancer funds

It might not be the weather for stripping off, but hundreds splashed about in the sea yesterday to raise funds to fight cancer and remember loved ones.

One family cherished memories of a teenage daughter who wanted to join the nationwide Dip in the Nip but was too ill to do it last year and died before this year’s event.

Up to 600 people — rain-lashed in the north-west and sun-splashed in the other three centres — joined in a record-breaking attempt to raise more than €100,000.