70% of Irish twenty-five year olds now live with their parents. I wrote about why that's obviously a very bad thing. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co... - ThreadSky

seamas.bsky.social • 49 days ago

70% of Irish twenty-five year olds now live with their parents. I wrote about why that's obviously a very bad thing.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41565463.html

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jeffreyschmeffrey.bsky.social•48 days ago

For who lol?

elainehutton.bsky.social•49 days ago

These are depressing stats. I was 22 when I left home, and that was considered pretty old at the time.

janthie.bsky.social•49 days ago

All the articles about one domestic Western crisis or another can almost always be captured by the 'That foreigner wants your cookie!' cartoon.

Shareholder capitalism lies at the root of almost all present evils, but the (far) right is extremely good at playing distraction games.

aggiem1906.bsky.social•49 days ago

My 26yo is still at home I love him to bits but my heart is breaking for him and all his friends.. all at home with their parents. Not one managed to move out

sighjinks.bsky.social•49 days ago

The biggest learning experience for me figuring out who I was as a person happened after I moved into my own place for the first time at 18. Seeing this opportunity denied for so long for so many is really worrying.

seamas.bsky.social•49 days ago

I also got the sums wrong on the headline. People born in 1998 are all now at least 26. Both this truth, and my fading capacity for arithmetic, are depressing.

jrrezvani.bsky.social•49 days ago

Oh never mind! I've been 43 for a couple of years now. 🤷🏻‍♂️

caoimhetiernan.bsky.social•48 days ago

If it's of any help, I was born in 1998 and keep thinking I'm 25 as well.

seamas.bsky.social•49 days ago

I sincerely hope no one thinks I consider my own youth as a paradise, but the differences between then and now are worth pointing out.

heawood.bsky.social•48 days ago

An excellent column. We are infantilising people who should have grown up and it worries me that the figures are significantly higher for men. Their (likely female) partners are going to end up even more frustrated by their share of the domestic load if the men haven’t learned to run a household.

urchinette.bsky.social•49 days ago

I finished my MA, started my 1st proper job and moved out in 1998, just on the other side of Celtic Tiger, when basically overnight everyone could find a job. But all my mates who graduated a year or two earlier had been on dole or doing v low paid work, and almost all of them were able to move out

imkatemc.bsky.social•49 days ago

Graduated in 08, none of us had any money & if we were working it was for peanuts, but as well as being able to move out, you could also do things for v little cash. There were cultural spaces, pop ups on a shoestrings & house parties that are basically impossible or non existent now

ickletayto.bsky.social•48 days ago

Also (not the point) but the Leprechaun museum is legit great and I always send visiting friends to it.

kathleenlenihan.bsky.social•49 days ago

Despite the fact that I already have too many subscriptions, I broke down and got one to the Irish Examiner so I can read your work. In exchange for this largesse, can you ask your editors about adding the Bluesky butterfly to your picture?

seamas.bsky.social•49 days ago

That seems like a very fair trade, will email them immediately!

kevburkeie.bsky.social•49 days ago

I'm an Examiner subscriber and some top-drawer writing lately Seamas!

wgoodf.bsky.social•48 days ago

As an aside, the story telling in that leprechaun museum, is very good indeed!

kateweb.bsky.social•48 days ago

I was talking about this recently, that in the 90s, I knew loads of actors and musicians who worked when they could and signed on in between. None of them were rich, but they could all pay rent/bills, eat and go out for an occasional pint.