Judge Anthony Halpin had ordered the firm to pay €1,000 costs and to donate a further €500 to the Little Flower Penny Dinners charity in Dublin.

Stop N Glow Limited, run by Aoife McGregor, located at Bridgefoot Street, in the Liberties, pleaded guilty to providing the treatment to a minor

Commercial sunbed use in Ireland should be banned, according to a working group set up by the Government.

Sunbeds use high-intensity UV rays, which damage skin cells and can lead to cancer, and have long been considered dangerous

At Ennis District Court, Judge Alec Gabbett made his comment after a Shannon-based sunbed business, Solcraft Ltd, entered a guilty plea to selling the use of a sunbed at a sunbed premises, Cosmopoli Tan in Shannon to a person under the age of 18.