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.
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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.
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
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
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?
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.
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