THE politicians who, in 2010, when Ireland and Greece faced a nuclear-winter economic collapse that was averted only by the intervention of the EU and IMF, decided that our best interests lay in accepting the reality of our situation and that working with the troika offered the best prospect of restoring some sort of stability to our economy have been vindicated.

Ireland will remain a “sitting duck” for another economic crash unless it instigates new rules to personally fine and jail bankers who break regulatory law.

An expert in bank regulation says Ireland's bank guarantee was the "stupidest own-goal in history".

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.

In its third year, the Kilkenny economics and comedy festival has attracted a host of dissident number-crunchers and academics to tackle the ongoing economic crisis.

A US investigator believes there should be prosecutions in Ireland arising out of our banking crisis.

COMEDY and economics seem unlikely bedfellows but it’s a marriage the organisers of a new festival which kicked off yesterday hope will be a winner.