‘I went bankrupt last Monday. These are words I never expected to have to write’

Finbarr Filan on life and hope after bankruptcy

Finbarr Filan at Union Wood, Ballisodare, in his native Sligo Picture: James Connolly

You have a second act

I went bankrupt last Monday. These are not words I ever expected to have to write. Those five words and that short sentence are the end result of a long journey. They certainly are not words I ever thought I would be happy to write.

Most definitely I never would have dreamt that I would be anxious to have that fact published. But I did, and I am. ...