Almost 200 Marilyn Monroe lookalikes sign up for Irish charity swim

Almost 200 Marilyn Monroe lookalikes have made a dash via collaborating in a themed charity swim at an Irish seaside.

Sporting unfashionable swimsuits and blond wigs, swimmers dressed because the movie megastar took the plunge at Balcarrick seaside in Donabate, County Dublin, for Marilyn’s Mater Paddle.

Sunday’s tournament, now in its 2nd 12 months, was once organised to boost finances for girls’s most cancers care at Dublin’s Mater sanatorium. The function was once to generate finances to fortify the sanatorium in dashing up most cancers analysis, bettering therapies and offering world-class care to girls from far and wide Ireland.

The director of construction on the sanatorium’s basis, Roisin Duffy, mentioned: “The foundation focuses on four key areas: life-saving equipment, hospital redevelopment, research and innovation, and patient and family support. This can mean providing everything from smaller things like IV drips for cancer patients, or Dyson fans for cancer patients, to the more advanced use of state-of-the-art mammogram machines.”

Duffy added: “We are incredibly humbled by the sisterhood of Marilyns who gathered in Donabate this morning for women’s cancer care. Marilyn’s Mater Paddle may seem on the surface like just a fun, Hollywood-themed dip but it’s so much more. It’s a paddle with a purpose and every splash and every donation made is helping us support women on their cancer journey in the Mater hospital.”