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Good News For Redheads

By Jack Beresford, Contributor
November / December 2018

November 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Newly crowned Redhead King and Queen, Alan Reidy and Grainne Keena, pose with a crowd full of red heads at the Irish Redhead Convention, which celebrates everything to do with red hair held in the village of Crosshaven on August 22, 2015 in Cork.

Redheads are significantly less likely to age badly. That’s according to a study conducted by Erasmus University in Rotterdam who discovered the gene that keeps people looking young is the same as the one responsible for red hair and skin. According to their findings, those who carry a variation of the MC1R gene responsible for red hair, look around two years younger than they … [Read more...] about Good News For Redheads

Red Heads Galore
(Photos from the 6th Annual Red Head Convention)

By Julia Judge, Contributor
September 4, 2015

September 4, 2015 by Leave a Comment

Red heads galore – all shades, lengths, sizes and ages and a bunch of wanna-be’s too at the 6th annual Red Head Convention in Crosshaven, Co. Cork. Turns out red hair and blue eyes are the rarest combo in the world –you wouldn’t have known in it Crosshaven Cork the weekend of Aug. 21st during the 6th annual Red Head Convention. Crosshaven is a village near Cork City with … [Read more...] about Red Heads Galore
(Photos from the 6th Annual Red Head Convention)

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