Hairdressers and barbers have begun cutting hair again, after their reopening date was brought forward as part of the country's road-map for easing Covid-19 restrictions.
However, some barber shops decided they didn't want to wait for daybreak, and over the past few days had been taking appointments to cut customers' hair at midnight last night.
Choppers Barbers in Terenure in Dublin was one of those that wanted to be a cut above the rest and opened in the early hours of this morning. "The sensation of getting all this hair off now ...
all the fluff on the back of my neck ... I tell you something - I was like a horse." That was the reaction of the first post-Covid customer through the door of the shop, Neil, who said he was "just so fed up