Kildare barber goes viral for his use of sheep shears in cutting men's hair

A barber from Kildare Town has gone viral after being featured on the Youtube channel for the Insider due to his rather peculiar method for cutting his customers' hair.

Paul McGann, who has been a barber for 33 years and is now recognised as a Grandmaster barber, runs the Master Barber Shop in Kildare Town. He has been attracting headlines lately for his use of sheep shears in cutting some of his customers' hair, and it is quite impressive when you look at the video below of how at ease he appears with the larger utensils.

Explaining how he began using the sheep shears, Paul said; "Some of my customers are sheep farmers, and they were messing one day and they said, 'I bet you can't cut hair with sheep shears. So I got the sheep shears, I adjusted it myself to cut hair, and [I've been] using it since."

"Whatever way it cuts the hair, it does put a little bit nicer of a finish on it sometimes."

He doesn't use the sheep shears on all of his customers, sticking to regular scissors most of the time, but he does get out the big clippers for fun sometimes.

Have a look at the video below to see how he does it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzLdbDLJOcM