Join our panel for a breathless round-the-world tour of some of the globe’s most fascinating economies. Some emerging from crisis, some booming and yet others sadly in great turmoil and... Read More

In four decades, bookended by the Pope’s visits to Ireland in September 1979 and August 2018, Ireland has become one of the wealthiest and most progressive nations in the world,... Read More

A Quango is defined as a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation. By the last count in 2015 there were, according to a study by the Institute of Public Administration, some 257 quangos... Read More

Is there any kind of model that fits well for the modern workplace? If so, what should it look like?  Most recently, the world of work has been based around... Read More

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency? Threatened by the rise of China, its own burgeoning deficits  and a President... Read More

The implications and impact of BREXIT is the most discussed topic in politics and economics today. Caitríona Cahill, Aidan Regan and Frank Crowley represent some of the smartest, interesting and... Read More

Sport is a multi-billion euro business. It has intricate ties to political and private interests. This means rich opportunities for corruption. Yet across the sporting sector, most deals and decisions... Read More

Does happiness increase with the growing wealth of a nation? And what role does inequality and gender balance play in this equation. As poorer countries become richer the difficulties of... Read More

VENUE CHANGE: This event has been moved from Hole in the Wall across the street to Medieval Mile Museum. This is a rare opportunity to meet the man who coined... Read More

Is a United Ireland now on the horizon? Demographics are pointing that way and Brexit changes everything. The political and economic pass-the-parcel continues with the poor unloved child of partition,... Read More

A hugely welcome return visitor to Kilkenomics, Jeffrey Sachs is undoubtedly one of the most important economists in the world today. He is a global leader in sustainable development, senior... Read More

The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 sent shock waves throughout global markets and economies, marking the start of the global financial crisis that crippled economies and states across... Read More

Who owns your data, if not you, who? After Cambridge Analytica, Facebook’s latest scandal, we are much more aware of the devious ways big social network companies harvest our data.... Read More

In October global stock markets fell by 5%, US interest rates are on the way up, emerging market currencies are being hammered, even tech stocks, once the shiny new things... Read More

Will we miss the Brits when it’s all over and done? While we are obsessed about Brexit, much of Europe has moved on, dealing with much bigger issues such as... Read More

The biggest question in economics is why do some places prosper and others falter. Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith’s founding text of free market economics maintains that enlightened self-interest, limited... Read More

For centuries, the world’s great economists have attempted to understand and grapple with the problems of humans, goods and money but, too often, their ideas are hard to digest, before... Read More

This time last year they were the future, today they look like the past. Having tanked in value this year, can cryptocurrencies recover particularly as they have tanked at a... Read More

How exactly do you put together an investigation to impeach a US President? This show will be led by world renowned forensic investigator Bill Black and explain how such a... Read More

Our work life is changing so quickly. In a few years, the world of work will look nothing like it does today. The relationship between employee and employer has fundamentally... Read More

What is economics, a hard science or jumped up, touchy feely quackery pedalled by modern day druids who happen to be good at sums? So much for the modelling, predictions... Read More

It’s not just Donald Trump. The global spread of liberal democracy was meant to result in the election of liberal, pro-Western leaders. Instead, a wave of strongmen rulers has been... Read More

Fintan O’Toole is one of Ireland’s leading political and cultural commentators and a prolific author. His work has appeared in many international newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, the... Read More

Harald Malmgren began his public service to the United States in 1962 when he was head-hunted by the Kennedy administration to join Defense Secretary Robert McNamara’s “Whizz Kids” group which... Read More

We have some of the best and most varied Irish perspectives in Kilkenny to offer their opinions on how Brexit is going to affect both Ireland and Ireland’s relationship with... Read More

New technology and artificial intelligence is changing the way we live and will have a huge impact on our future. From disaster relief, delivering medical aid, products and services to... Read More

Negotiations continue on the divorce between the UK and the EU amid much acrimony about who owes what to whom, what the future relationship will look like and, crucially, who’ll... Read More

The rise of populism across the world can be seen as a direct response to the failure of institutions of state and society to protect citizens from the effects of... Read More

According to a recent edition of The Economist, Dublin’s house prices are overvalued by 25% relative to long term income; and guess who predicted Ireland’s last housing bubble and bust?... Read More

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, the Skripal poisoning in the UK and the fate human rights activist Liu Xiaobo in China have all been widely condemned throughout the... Read More

Ian Hughes’ remarkable new book offers a compelling and timely account of the dangers posed by narcissistic leaders, and provides a stark warning that the conditions in which this psychopathy... Read More

The 45th President of the United States has become the country’s most controversial ever in a little over a year and a half of his reign. He is widely regarded,... Read More

Kilkenomics is delighted to welcome the return of the hugely popular and greatly enjoyable mash-up of comedy and economics in which comedians and economists attempt to apply plain speaking and... Read More

This is a fascinating session which looks at how good and bad urban planning impacts on the economy – at local, regional and national level; and how modern economics is... Read More

The growth of populism in elections in societies across Europe and the United States in recent years has stunned the liberal consensus and shaken the post-war Western order to its... Read More

Consistently the fastest-selling shows at Kilkenomics, our Sunday brunches return with world-class panelists and razor-sharp comedians divining the entrails of the newspapers and ruminating on the events of the weekend.... Read More

Consistently the fastest-selling shows at Kilkenomics, our Sunday brunches return with world-class panelists and razor-sharp comedians divining the entrails of the newspapers and ruminating on the events of the weekend.... Read More

In story, pictures and song – Paddy Cullivan brings alive Ireland’s first republican rebellion – inspired by the American and French Revolutions, free trade, ‘fake news’ and identity politics. Led by... Read More

Who knows what sort of doom and gloom, what sighs of despair Kilkenomics 2018 will bring as the weekend unfolds. Of course, there’ll be plenty of good humour abounding too... Read More

Gerry Stembridge hosts this panel which reflects on the weekend itself, topics that were most contentious, together with ideas which may have emerged either on or off stage. It’s also... Read More

A brand new game show from the inside of Eleanor Tiernan’s head will finally show itself in Cleere’s on Sunday at 5:15pm! Featuring Kilkenomics 2018 comics Des Bishop, Alison Spittle,... Read More