She added that when Chambers advised listeners final April, in an episode called “Intrapersonally Speaking,” that he had been recognized with autism, that had helped her adapt to an A.D.H.D. prognosis she had not too long ago acquired. “I’ve been impressed by him to be open,” she mentioned, including that she now posts repeatedly about her expertise of A.D.H.D. on TikTok.
Points like these are nonetheless comparatively under-discussed within the Irish information media and society, and Chambers’ followers appear to welcome his candor. He will get “hundreds and hundreds” of social media messages about psychological well being, he mentioned, however he might by no means cope with interactions like these in individual. “If I didn’t have the bag,” Chambers mentioned, “I’d cease speaking about psychological well being.”
On different episodes, Chambers talks frankly about an financial local weather that he says has infantilized his era. Ireland is in the grips of a rental disaster brought on by a extreme housing scarcity; Prime Minister Leo Varadkar mentioned final month that the nation of 5 million folks had 250,000 too few homes. And it’s Eire’s millennials who’re worst affected, Chambers mentioned. “The media will name a 40-year-old a teenager. I’m in my late 30s and I refuse: I’m middle-aged,” he added. “If you happen to name it ‘middle-aged folks can’t get housing,’ it’s apparent there’s a drawback.”
Chambers mentioned he noticed a generational divide, too, in the way in which that the information media within the Republic of Eire talks about Northern Irish politics. On the podcast, Chambers addresses millennial views that he says information retailers within the South fail to mirror.
Sinn Fein, a political occasion that fields candidates on either side of the border, has had a current resurgence of recognition within the South, the place it was as soon as unpopular as a result of it was related to the Irish Republican Military. Chambers mentioned the Irish information media continued to attract hyperlinks between the occasion and terrorism. However for folks born after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that brokered peace within the North, he mentioned, Sinn Fein lawmakers had been “those who’re doing one thing completely different.” (He added that he didn’t endorse any political events.)
A number of widespread Instagram accounts attest to this rising curiosity in Northern Irish politics amongst younger folks within the Republic. One among these, known as Tanistry, posts plainly illustrated slides explaining historic occasions such because the Good Friday Settlement, or the Bloody Sunday bloodbath of 1972, and relating them to modern politics. Andrew Clarke, a 27-year-old faculty pupil from Belfast who runs the account, mentioned that there had been a tradition of “mystification” round Northern Irish politics and that he was “attempting to make it digestible,” including that greater than half of the account’s followers had been aged 24 to 35, with the best concentrations in Dublin and Belfast.
