Hair colour ‘ruined Communion’

A 37-year-old housewife, who claimed her enjoyment of her daughter’s First Holy Communion was ruined after a salon hair colour treatment burned her scalp, has been awarded €12,500 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Elaine Wilson alleged that on May 22, 2013, she attended Rainbow Hair and Beauty, Convent Road, Clondalkin, Dublin in preparation for her daughter’s communion three days later.

Ms Wilson told her barrister, Gareth Kinsella, she asked a staff member for an all-over colour treatment.