Cork salons losing clients as hairdressers refuse 'shadow economy' work

Caroline Bell, owner of The Hair Salon in Cobh said: "People are at their wit's end at the minute now over their hair.

Caroline Bell, owner of The Hair Salon in Cobh says people are desperate and the "shadow economy" is booming everywhere during the lockdown.

A number of Cork hair salons say they have lost clients during the Covid-19 pandemic after refusing to do their hair during the Level 5 restrictions.

Caroline Bell, owner of The Hair Salon in Cobh, says people are desperate and the "shadow economy" is booming everywhere during the lockdown.