Setting rules for young kippers

THE 2011 census tells a story.

In Ireland, at least 90,000 adult children in their 30s and 40s continue to live at home, or have boomeranged back to the familial homestead through economic or personal pressures.

An astonishing, 440,000 adults over the age of 18 resided with their parents in 2011. We can make a reasonable assumption that these figures will have increased with the weight of house keys being flung back at red-faced bank managers during the recession over the past five years.