Debt strain made husband wish for ‘hole in ground’

“If there was a hole I could have jumped into and covered it over and gone to sleep and never woke up, both my wife and I would have taken that option.”

That’s how a Clare husband and father describes the strain of mortgage debt on his family.

The man was speaking outside a packed basement Court No 3 at Ennis courthouse where he had just received an adjournment in his case to May 15.