Blooming trees in Dublin city center during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Blooming trees in Dublin city center during the COVID-19 lockdown.
  • Increasing numbers of young Irish adults live with their parents.
  • A severe housing affordability crisis is to blame.
  • Rents in Ireland jumped 84% between 2010 and 2022, far more than the EU average.

Housing has become so unaffordable in Ireland that younger people are increasingly moving back in with their parents — or never leaving their childhood homes, to begin with.