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Events will take place in Kilkenny throughout this month to celebrate and support the charitable campaign of Movember.

Movember (the month formally known as November) is a charity event held during November each year. At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face.

Movember, the month formerly known as November, is an annual, month-long, charity event where men grow a moustache throughout the month to raise funds for Action Prostate Cancer, an initiative of the Irish Cancer Society.

“A man without a moustache is like a cup of tea without sugar” goes an old English proverb, and if you agree you should take part in Movember.

The NUI Galway Students’ Union will be encouraging male students to grow a moustache for Movember to raise funds for the Action Prostate Programme run by the Irish Cancer Society.

‘Movember’ is a ‘growing’ movement which happens annually to raise funds and awareness for men’s health issues. It started in 2003 in Melbourne, Australia. The plan was simple; to bring the moustache back as a bit of a joke and do something for men’s health. No money was raised in 2003, but the guys behind the Mo realized the potential a moustache had in generating conversations about men’s health.

Galwegians RFC experienced some hairy moments last Thursday as the team shaved off their Mos to end what has been a mo-mentus month of Moustache growth.

Throughout the decades many famous men have proudly worn a moustache - Salvador Dali, Tom Selleck, Frank Zappa, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mark Twain, and ahem, Adolf Hitler.

You know those TV programmes where a team of builders/designers take over someone's house and give it a makeover? Then the owner is brought back and shown the finished job, usually to screams of delight.

The men who have grown moustaches for the Movember charity will have their facial hair removed at a big ‘shave off’ party in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, on Tuesday December 1 at 7.30pm.