People were full of praise for Blindboy Boatclub’s interview on the Tommy Tiernan Show

Not for the first time, the Rubberbandits man proved a voice of reason on a national stage.

Few male figures in Ireland have been as interesting and as compelling to listen to for a certain generation of Irish people in recent years than Blindboy Boatclub. The Rubberbandits man is funny and always entertaining, but he has a refreshing outlook on some of the issues facing young people in society, particularly the issue of mental health. On Wednesday night, he once again offered a view on life that many people of a similar age could relate to on the Tommy Tiernan Show, speaking about his own battle with depression and how his peers in his home city of Limerick have struggled due to the recession and the lack of support systems. “Limerick got a fair wallop off the recession and it was mainly people my own age,” Blindboy said. https://twitter.com/RTEOne/status/958826310003916800 "The recession would have hit when I was in my early 20s and half my friends went to Australia or the other half died, and the ones that didn't die were left with severe mental health issues because of lack of support systems and the pressures of their daily life and the lack of seeing a future.” Addressing why he wears a plastic bag on his head, Blindboy told Tommy that he wanted to find a way of speaking about issues that affect men under 30 in Ireland through a medium that isn’t intimidating and that’s “a bit of craic”. "I used to suffer unbelievable depression and anxiety and I came out the other side of it using psychological tools and I wouldn't mind people learning a bit of that because a lot of it you can get through self-help." With Tiernan once again showing his impressive ability to facilitate the conversation, the interview was the subject of much praise by viewers on social media and, if you didn’t catch it, is well worth listening to in full on the RTÉ Player here. https://twitter.com/Briantredmond/status/958844879471370240 https://twitter.com/Honkynew/status/958841541530914816 https://twitter.com/lisamoore18/status/958852707468660737 https://twitter.com/_PatriciaV_/status/958846108763131905 https://twitter.com/JuiceBoxComedy/status/958841902106849280 https://twitter.com/nok1980/status/958838778877169671 https://twitter.com/MikeCooke92/status/958832316926910469 https://twitter.com/LynScribbles/status/958832121417789440 https://twitter.com/ColPmusic/status/958827823548043266