Beards record bid fails to make the cut

In the end, it wasn’t even a close shave.

Which was just as well, given that beards were at a premium in Ballymoe, Co Galway.

Efforts to break the Guinness World Record for the most beards in the one place fell short, but there was no shortage of hairy moments in what is officially billed ‘the Town of 1,000 Beards’.