‘I’ve buried five friends since January’

A MAN who lost his fuel business after 20 years has organised a Facebook help page for people struggling to meet mounting financial debt.

Seamus Sherlock, from Feoghanagh, Co Limerick, started the Life after Debt group after five people he knew took their own lives. The 45-year-old firmly believes stress over financial worries played a major part in the deaths of his friends.

“There are too many people taking their own lives and it has to stop. I’m getting up to 30 phonecalls a day from people who are worried about their future. They’re not all suicidal, but some are. I’m not a professional but a lot of these people just want someone to listen to them. A lot of people are lost.”