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Movember, the charity event where men grow moustaches during November to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society is in full swing, but there is a chance for Galway women to get involved too.

Back for the fourth year running, men all over Mayo are harvesting their upper lip for Movember (the month formerly known as November), where the hair of the wild will be grown and groomed to perfection.

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If it is November it means it is also Movember, the charity event where, for the month men grow moustaches to raise awareness for men’s health and funds for the Irish Cancer Society’s Action Prostate Cancer initiative.

A great man is usually accompanied by a great moustache. Think about it - Albert Einstein, Salvador Dali, Freddie Mercury, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lord Kitchener, Friedrich Engels, and Tom Selleck.

The inaugural Blue September Ireland aims to challenge Irish men to face up to cancer and to raise awareness of bowel, lung, prostate, and testicular cancer, while fundraising for Irish charities Cancer Care West, the Marie Keating Foundation, the Mater Foundation, and the Mercy Hospital Foundation.

Galway bands Lost Chord and Go Panda Go are providing the soundtrack to Movember, the moustache growing charity, with their fundraising single ‘I Wanna To Be Tom Selleck’.

Three weeks ago Groom @ Fat Tonys opened its doors in Ballinasloe. This new addition to the business completes the luxury service offering of Ballinasloe’s premier barber shop, which just celebrated six months open last weekend. The new services provide relaxing back, shoulder, neck, and head massages, de-stress facials, and almost painfree back, chest, leg, and arm waxing treatments, all in the comfort of their stylish new treatment room.

Galway has gone Movember crazy – particularly Connacht Rugby and the city's West End, where local businesses have organised a host of fundraising events.

THE RÓISÍN Dubh will hold a Silent Disco on Wednesday November 17 at 11.45pm, after The Laughter Lounge show, to raise funds for Movember.