Reeling in the years: Covid and the boomerang generation

The pandemic is pushing young adults back home with their parents as rising rents, closed off campuses, and travel bans create a new kind of boomerang generation.

Katrina Murray and her mother Stephanie are getting used to being cooped up together again at home in Co. Offaly Photo: Brian Arthur

Covid-19 has brought us all somewhere we never thought we’d be. 

For many of the 'boomerang generation', that place is back home to ride out the pandemic with mum and dad.