Barber challenges cut to Covid-19 payment

Nicolai Ciaica, a citizen of Romania and Moldova, has worked in Ireland since 2013. He was stranded in Moldova by lockdown restrictions

Romanian/Moldovan barber Nicolai Ciaica has worked in Ireland since 2013. Generic photo.

A barber who went on holiday to his native country just before the Covid-19 lockdown and could not get back to Ireland has brought a High Court challenge to the cutting off of his pandemic unemployment payment.

Nicolai Ciaica, a citizen of Romania and Moldova, has worked here since 2013 and lives in Main St, Clongriffin, Dublin.