Ireland’s study on ‘zoomers’ to enter a new phase 

As they turned 20 right before the onset of Covid-19, many of the young people featured in GUI reported spending a lot of time daily online, experiencing symptoms of depression or anxiety, and were most likely to live at home with their parents. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Generation Z, or ‘zoomers’, have had a lot to contend with: the economic fallout of the Great Recession, entering early adulthood during the Covid-19 pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine, record inflation, and ominous warnings about monkeypox and impending recessions.

The world has changed almost beyond recognition since they were born in the boom of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and climate change ensures it will continue to do so.