Finlay still haunted by father’s letter to son

CHILDREN’S rights campaigner and potential presidential candidate Fergus Finlay said he was still “haunted” by a suicide letter that a young father wrote to his 10-year-old son.

Mr Finlay, who is chief executive of children’s charity Barnardos, said the young boy had found the letter beside his father’s body.

“I have been haunted for the last five years by the opening lines of the letter. It said: ‘Son you are the head of the family now’,” said Mr Finlay.