Baby boom generation starting to retire in or around 2030

That's because the term baby boomers is meaningless in Ireland so of course it doesn't correspond to anything real. I can't understand why people even do that. Seems like they want to create identity groups to pit against each other or something.

There were no masses of conscripted soldiers coming back after the war to make all these babies, the economy in Ireland had no post war boom, and in fact remained in the doldrums until the mid eighties. It's the opposite really: emigration was significant among Irish people the same age as baby boomers in the US and UK, because their economies were doing well.

The nearest Irish equivalent to the privileged baby boomers is probably those who profited from the (rather short lived) Celtic tiger days. They're a LOT younger.

Ah to be young again 😀

And you can now see why a certain sector of society are a tad uncomfortable with the prospect of legally assisted dying 🤪

These generation labels did not exist 15/20 years ago. I think they are a divide and conquer concoction to attack social cohesion.
I might have heard of Generation X but not in the context it’s used today. But definitely never heard of baby boomer or millennial or silent generation. It’s all bullshit to pit people against each other.
The wealthiest families I know are the ones who work together and pull together inter generationally.

Oh be quiet you, you self-entitled burden on society. 😀

Owning you own home was NEVER a basic

Secure job was NEVER a basic.

I worked since 16. From 22 to 27 I shared a house with three others. Had my first holiday abroad at 28 and scrimped and saved (and, I will admit, there was a certain amount of luck/good timing) to buy my house. Next 5 years also sharing my house with two others.

It was most certainly not considered a basic assumption

I have have had 4 jobs and do not assume that my current job cannot go elsewhere at some stage (two of my previous jobs moved abroad)

(And yes, I do realise that sounded like that Monty Python sketch).

Wow. Did I say any of that?

Why no. No I didn’t.

I said a different thing.

turning former basics such as homes and secure jobs into luxuries

You said they were “former basics”. What do you understand by that, if not that everyone could expect to have ready access to them?

If you want, but my point was not a "silly game", even if yours was.

My very serious point is that it's inappropriate and socially divisive to try to apply a US understanding of the world to other countries, specifically Ireland. We didn't have a baby boom after the war, and young adults in the 60s, 70s and 80s never had an easy time regarding housing or jobs - and those few who may have done were helped by the fact that mass emigration took a lot of pressure off the market for those who were able to stay.

So this "Oh you baby boomers had it so easy compared to us" sh1te is not only divisive, it's factually incorrect.

I graduated in the first year that the number of people arriving in the country finally overtook the number emigrating. I was one of those who left. If the same numbers were emigrating today, housing would no doubt be a lot more affordable. I don't think that makes "housing and stable jobs were a basic back then" a fair conclusion.

That's all I had to say about it, so I'm happy to leave it at that - but not to pretend that I was playing a silly game.

not in Irish media. Not using those de lineations. There was generational differences mostly defined by those who lived through and fought in the war of independence civil war etc and those that came after who came of age in the 60’s/70’s. And then the current post Catholic generation. Boomers , millennials etc are false American media constructs in the Irish context. Invented for the purpose of antagonism over there and exported to here.

Learn something new every day it seems.

Never realised I was a Gen X man.

Ireland's population fell in the 1950s. There is no US comparison. Generation X is an American cultural term for American people and their experiences. Irish people have completely different upbringing and experiences and so it seems bizarre to link Irish people with these American labels.