{"id":384295,"date":"2026-04-06T06:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384295\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:43:07","slug":"every-day-i-thought-about-ending-my-life-says-migrant-worker-who-was-paid-e1-61-an-hour-at-a-louth-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384295\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Every day I thought about ending my life,\u2019 says migrant worker who was paid \u20ac1.61 an hour at a Louth restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">At one stage, Vasantkumar Barot was paid just \u20ac1.61 an hour and worked 90-hour weeks\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vasantkumar Barot sold\u00a0his house in India to help cover a \u20ac15,000 payment for a work permit and the promise of a good job. Photo: David Conachy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/131e8281-4685-4e27-8d60-3306bab5c0b6.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Vasantkumar Barot sold\u00a0his house in India to help cover a \u20ac15,000 payment for a work permit and the promise of a good job. Photo: David Conachy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Vasantkumar Barot thought about suicide daily when he was at his \u00adlowest point while working for just \u20ac1.61 an hour at a Louth restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At one stage, Vasantkumar Barot was paid just \u20ac1.61 an hour and worked 90-hour weeks Vasantkumar Barot sold\u00a0his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26022,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-384295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-anne-marie-walsh","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}