Teen in wheelchair was denied a haircut by barber

€2k to pay after discriminating against boy with cerebral palsy

A Cork City-based Turkish barber has been ordered to pay €2,000 for refusing to cut the hair of a teenager with mild cerebral palsy.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) found the barber discriminated against the teen on the grounds of disability under the Equal Status Acts when refusing to cut the hair of wheelchair user Thomas Bermingham, aged 13, in March last year.