Hello and welcome to the Blind By Podcast, you stewing new ones.

I have a special treat for you this week because this podcast is me having a chat with the

legendary Shinedo Connor, also known as Shuhada Sadaquas.

So I've got a lovely chat with Shinedo.

If you're here, just to hear Shinedo Connor and you don't want to listen to me and you

don't know who the fuck I am, that's absolutely fine.

You just fast forward to about 25 minutes in.

Everyone else who wants to listen to me speak, I need to have a small little bit of a rant

before I get into the chat with Shinedo Connor.

So I had a bit of an event for a week, this week, because I'm a controversial one.

Because the Irish Independent, which is a large newspaper in Ireland, they published

this opinion piece on Sunday written by a journalist and the opinion piece was, it was critical

of people in Ireland speaking about mental health who don't have qualifications in mental

health.

Basically people who aren't experts speaking about mental health in a public forum and

it took particular swipes at me.

Now I don't mind if someone's like critiquing me, an opinion columnist is entitled to fucking

critique and offer opinions on me or anything I'm doing, that's not the issue.

The column really I felt it was disappointed because it really misrepresented what I do.

The headline of the article was, our pop mental health gurus are just blind by leading

the blind and I was really disappointed with the article, not because it criticised me

but because it misrepresented what I do.

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