Sharon Ledwith will never forget receiving a phone call in 2001, just seconds after she’d been informed that her brother, Colin, who was just 18 at the time, had died by suicide. “Somebody rang me and asked if it was true, but I’d had no time to process the news,” says the now 44-year-old grief counsellor and hypnotherapist, from Athenry, Co Galway. “For years afterwards, I would panic every time the phone rang.
Even now, when the phone rings, it fills me with dread...
” One of four children, Ledwith was 20 years old and working for a tax rebate company at the time in Dublin..
