A man whose friend died spent has spent two years growing a 'comb-over for cancer' - to raise money for charity in her honour.

Fred Murray has photographed himself every day as his combover grew - before creating a fantastic video documenting his progress.

Fred, from Dublin, Ireland, has already raised €12,600 (£10,500) and hoped to hit to his his €25,000 target by next April.

He also aims to complete a comb-over style 'head to head' cycle from the northmost to southernmost heads of Ireland - around 540km.

Fred, 45, a graphic designer, decided to 'one up' the popular 'Movember' charity efforts across the globe by growing what he said was the 'worst' hairstyle he could manage.

A nearly bald man, Fred finally reached the two-year mark on December 9th 2021, and now has a 19.5cm combover from the left side of his head - but still aims to do more.

Fred said: "My inspiration was a friend of mine called Fiona Cribbon who was diagnosed with breast cancer probably ten years ago.

''She has surgery and a lot of chemo, and she managed to recover quite well.

"But then around 2015 or 2016 and the cancer had just spread everywhere.

''She was just written off, but she managed to battle on for a number of years.

"She celebrated her 39th birthday not knowing if she would make it to 40, but ultimately made it to 41 in the end when she lost her fight with her cancer.

"I was on holiday at the time in Greece, and I had a dream and was thinking about her the next day, so I decided that maybe I should try and do something.

"It was coming up to November and obviously with 'Movember' I was thinking about what I could do. The problem was Movember has been around for so long I felt I'd have been lucky to raise two hundred euros.

"I started thinking about what could really spark people's imagination - Movember is great of course but it's been around a long time now.

"Being a bald man, I can't really grow that much hair, so I thought a comb-over would be pretty bad - no relatively young man grows a comb-over".