Thousands of Irish women shed their inhibitions and their clothes on a secluded beach 30 miles south of Dublin today for a world-record setting ‘skinny dip’ to raise funds for a children’s cancer charity.

Lucia Sinigagliesi, the Guinness World Records official that adjudicated the naked swim, said that 2,505 women spent five minutes in the chilling sea to set the new world record.

The previous record was set in Western Australia in 2015 when 786 participants swam naked to promote body positivity near the regional capital Perth, in waters that are usually around 23 degrees centigrade at that time of year.