Father of five barricades himself into farm to avoid eviction

It doesn't make sense to evict the man when he is willing to pay. Something logical and humane like extending & reducing the man's mortgage payments, until he is better off, makes more sense.

I am standing with Seamus Sherlock at his farm,we will not lose this battle due to it's importantance not only Seamus and his family but also the Irish people.For anyone in any other Country from Ireland.support Seamus sherlock.The red coats also have been long gone out of Ireland,We are dealing with another predator now some Irish and we will deal with them.

Farmer Sherlock, bring yourself and five sons to Australia and work in the mining industry - you will never look back.

what does the ombudsman characters do - sit on their fa while folks go beserk.

This is just so very, very sad. Take the farm from him, to what end? So it lays fallow because no one can afford to buy it? If I weren't in much the same position on the other side of The Pond, I would send every dime I had to this man...and the thousands of others who so desperately need from freedom from the stress of trying to survive. I hate what the world has become.

No, mairint, it'll be the white coats coming for him... I sympathise with the man and his struggle to protect his home, his 'castle' against money chasing bullies.

The Redcoats are coming...

God Damn the Royalist Pandering Rent Collector ! This type of Insult to God and Country is beyond any Bourgeois apology of Wealth and Prosperity !

Farmer Sherlock has no doubt been in receipt of Child benefit x 5 and the infamous Single Farm Payment in addition to all the other Welfare benefits. If he can't manage on over €24 thousand per year FREE money,he has no right to be advising anyone,let alone trying to 'run' a business. He needs a good kick in the hole!

Time for the Irish diaspora here in Canada and the US to reach out to this man and his family. Surely someone has a contact(s) in Ireland who can be of assistance to this man of integrity. I've contacted one political party in Limerick and would like to see other politicians inundated with emails and phone calls. Word from Limerick is that an uprising is in the air.

Farmer Sherlock's plight reminds me of Land League days in Co. Limerick. The article states that Sherlock has stong support among local people but it doesn't indicate if any periest is in his corner. It the late 1800s Fr. Casey of Abbeyfeale (west Limerick) played a major role in the struggle against the eviction of tenant farmers. A question comes to mind: What are church leaders and others who are very supportive iof needy immigrants in the Irish tate doing to help this unfortunate farmer and his five children?