Chuckles aplenty but Black injects note of banking reality

Kilkenomics is probably the only comedy event in the world where quotes from the Nyberg report mingle with behavioural economics and bitcoin speculation, in front of a chuckling audience.

Bill Black, the criminologist responsible for thousands of bankers in the aftermath of the Savings and Loans debacle in the 1980s, calls it the “best gig in economics”.

Mr Black took to the stage to outline the criminal recipe that was used by the bankers at the heart of the Irish crisis to achieve phenomenal growth with catastrophic consequences.