We just can't say so-long to our Mammy's it seems
A new study by Eurostat has found the average age at which young Irish people are leaving the family home for the first time is now 26.3 years old.
The figure was found to be just slightly above the EU average of 26.0 years.
Although our figure has nothing on Malta where kids don't leave the family nest until they're an average of 32.2 years of age.
While people in Nordic countries were found to be the most independent, leaving home at an average age of just 21.
Here is the full info graph of the European average, with Ireland basically smack-bang in the middle:
