This Friday personal services such as hairdressers, barbers and beauty salons can reopen in Northern Ireland.

Here in the Republic we will have to wait until May 4th when personal services will begin to open on a staggered basis.

Is this going to put businesses in the South in a difficult situation?

Daniel McCrossen – Owner of Daniel Anthony Hairdressers in Enniskillen, Orla from So Gel Nails in Derry and Shirley from Temple Beauty in Belleek spoke to Andrea Gilligan about it.

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