Barber must pay €62k damages for franchise breach

A barber has been ordered by a judge to pay damages of €62,000 to a well-known barbershop chain for styling his hairdressing shop as part of the brand he had ended a five-year franchise agreement with.

Judge Petria McDonnell told Greg Coleman in the Circuit Civil Court that his barbershop was a complete copy of the well-known Boston Barbers brand of shops he had decided to break away from.