Sam Boland: Young people do not need Gen X in their social spaces

Stuck under parents’ roofs, sacrificing chunks of their formative years to covid lockdowns to keep older people alive, young people do not now need us wrinklies in their social space

Gen X's nightclub experience means having nowhere to sit and being unable to hear conversations.

To give you some idea of where this article is coming from, I had to get my daughter to put a Chappell Roan record on the Spotify machine for research purposes.

Chappell Roan is the Gen Z pop star du jour, and serves as a yardstick in a recent Irish Examiner column that has ruffled a few feathers. Last Friday, Jane Cowan wrote in her Diary of a Gen Z Student that people over a certain age shouldn’t be allowed into nightclubs. If you haven’t heard of Chappell Roan, no entry.