Living with your parents ... the boomerang life

ACCORDING to the Census of 2011, 440,000 over-18s in Ireland live with their parents.

And 91,000 of those are over 30-years-old. The figure has spiralled since the downturn. And, according to Rowan Manahan, MD of Fortify Services, few of the returnees are happy.

“Going home is almost universally not their desire,” he says. “And it’s certainly not their parents’ desire, but economic necessity prevails. Many people have had to take a significantly lower paid job. Or they’ve moved back from abroad, and find they’re not as well qualified as their competitors. There’s a need to retrain.”