Off Message: Nadine O'Regan

A mortgage ad featuring an older couple for whom everything worked out just fine has struck a nerve with the young

Mick and Kate, AIB’s poster couple, are having a better time than most of us

Youth is wasted on the young? Maybe once, but in 2017, being young in Ireland no longer seems like such an enviable prospect. If anything, it’s the auld ones who appear to have it good, with their permanent jobs, their nearly-paid-for homes and their political influence in government.

That feeling of youth disenfranchisement has been in the air in recent months, but it was crystallised some weeks back by something very simple: an ...