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Connemara girl is a real local hair-o!
A twelve year old Connemara girl has shed her beautiful foot-long ponytail – to make life better for other young people who are living with hair loss.
Niamh Ní Chonghaile from An Leic, Leitir Móir in the Connemara Gaeltacht, decided to donate her prized locks to the charity Rapunzel after learning about the charity from a poster in the Hair Studio hair salon in Cladhnach.
“She saw the poster in the hairdressers, and we looked it up online and learned a bit more about it. She decided herself that she would like to do it, and as she says herself, it will grow again,” said her mother, Deirdre.
Niamh had last cut her beautiful, curly red hair in May 2013 in order to let it grow long enough to donate.
So last Thursday, at the Hair Studio, she had a foot long ponytail of hair cut off to donate to Rapunzel, and it will go to creating wigs for children with alopecia.
Niamh and her parents, Deirdre and Stiofán, were interviewed by Bairbre Ní Choisdealbha on Iris Aniar on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.
See full story in this week’s Connacht Tribune.