Social Networking has been dominated by the recent trend which sees people being nominated to dump ice cold water over their heads, before nominating the next people to continue the challenge and donate £3 to Macmillan Cancer Support.

And if it’s good enough for the likes of Alex Salmond, Alistair Darling, former US president George Bush and golf hero Tiger Woods then it’s good enough for our reporter Sean Rooney who felt he had no option but to take up the challenge after being nominated by his little brother.

Sean said he felt compelled to join millions of others after watching two videos of close friends who suffer from cancer taking the challenge.

Like many other of participants he was also inspired by the memory of a loved one lost to the deadly disease.

The 22-year-old reporter said: “I wasn’t very well at the time and my little brother knew this but he nominated me anyway and gave me 24 hours to do it.

“But I had already watched two friends take it online, one who is battling the later stages of cancer and has already raised £10,000 for Beatson’s Cancer Care, and another, who is just beginning chemotherapy.

“I also lost my gran to a battle with cancer, she was diagnosed twice with it over the course of seven years.

“Just when it looked like she might beat it a second time she passed away — it was heart breaking for my entire family, especially my mum, who was on holiday at the time and had to try and rush back home. It felt quite important to me to do it, and give something back, and make sure others were going to do the same after me.

“What is 20 seconds of cold compared to raising awareness and money for life saving care and research?” Sean’s brother Connor Rooney stood on the roof of their kitchen and dumped two 25 litre buckets over him before Sean nominated his friends David Malcolm, 22, Ryan Dinning, 22, dad Thomas Rooney, 49, and girlfriend Linzi McTaggart, 20.

Millions of pounds have been raised for several different national charities over the course of the month since the challenge started to go viral.

A spokeswoman for Macmillan Cancer Support said: “So far more than 100,000 people have taken part in the challenge and more than £320,000 has been raised through the text service.

“Since the challenge began on July 23, the challenge has went viral and we have certainly appreciated the thousands of people in Scotland who have taken up the challenge for Macmillan and other charities of their choice.” You can view Sean’s video on the Barrhead News Facebook page.