The Rubberbandits’ Blindboy Boatclub appeared on Channel 4 news on Thursday evening where he gave an impassioned interview on young people in Ireland.
The TV star opened up on topics including emigration, the recession and suicide and how they affect young Irish people today.
”My generation, we’re old enough to remember the Celtic Tiger, but we’re massively affected by the recession,” he said.
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”Our 20s were stolen from us, pretty much.”
Blindboy discussed Ireland’s high emigration rate and explained many people don’t see a future for themselves in the country.
”Young Irish people, the suicide amongst them is massive. Huge amounts of suicide, jumping into rivers, and emigration and a lot of young Irish people, they don’t see a future.”
Speaking about the 1916 rising, he said: ”It’s weird to look back at these lads that were our age, these men and women that were our age trying to forge a future and now we’re in a situation where we don’t see a future but we don’t even know who our enemy is.”
