'Therapy is a weakness': Understanding James McClean and a career full of controversies

James McClean’s view that therapy is a “weakness” has been widely criticised. But where does that belief come from?

Dan McDonnell, ghostwriter of McClean's new book The Walls,  joins Kevin Doyle to discuss McClean’s difficult upbringing, the man behind the controversial opinions and the things he has spent much of his life refusing to talk about.

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