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David McWilliams and comedian Des Bishop will both be there... James Horan/Photocall Ireland
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'Cautious optimism', laughter and Mammynomics promised at Kilkenomics
The five-day festival returns for its third year next month.
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MAMMYNOMICS AND ARE We Addicted to Bad News? are just two of the shows in the upcoming Kilkenomics festival which will see economics discussed with a healthy dose of Irish humour.
Returning for a third year, the five-day festival will run from 1-4 November, featuring familiar faces David McWilliams, Paul McCulley, Max Keiser, Des Bishop and Colin Murphy.
The event aims to remove the jargon, political squabbling and elitism usually involved in economic debate, with organisers promising “cautious optimism and laughter” as an antidote to the “horror of the last few years of bank bailouts, spending cuts and being monitored at work by Angela Merkel”.
McWilliams said, “We want to remove the depressing tone from the debate.”
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One person hoping to achieve this is the creator of the hugely popular @irishmammies Twitter account, Colm O’Regan, who brings the woman back to life with his 60-minute show Mammynomics.
“She remembers when you hadn’t an arse to your trousers, she didn’t know where you heard that bad language from, and wondered how on earth you could spend that much on a handbag. Like Silvermints, a broad tax base, and Live At 3, the Irish Mammy was cast to one side during the boom as we forgot everything we learnt and paid with everything we owned,” he says.
McWilliams, along with Max Keiser, Damien Kiberd, Fintan O’Toole, Neil Delamere and Brian Lucey, will discuss Ireland’s seeming “relentless negativity” in Are We Addicted to Bad News? on 3 November.
Paul McCulley, the man who coined the phrase the ”shadow banking system” and the “Minsky Moment” and who as the former chief economist and managing director of PIMCO, will give the Raymond Crotty Lecture also on 3 November.
All of the debates and discussions will feature comedic interludes from Des Bishop, Neil Delamere, Colm O’Regan, Colin Murphy, Kevin Gildea, Barry Murphy and Karl Spain.
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@Maria Hickey-Fagan: yYou’re dead right, look at the fallout lockdowns are having on inflation which is a long way from finished yet. Lockdowns affecting and will affect more than covid ever did…
@Declan Doyle: really? A certain war currently ongoing has nothing to do with it? You know, the one driving up the prices of electricity and causing an energy crisis…….something that to my knowledge the lockdowns never did.
@alan: C’mon, what evidence of proactivity have we seen from this gov’t, they spend all their time chasing their tails. There are certain areas where we should err on the side of caution yet when it comes to Covid.
@SquintEastwood: Well done i was afraid to mention it as i suspect that comment would also be deleted. Perhaps the Journalist Tadgh McNally would care to explain why it was deleted when most platforms are showing this now, when up until a few weeks ago would have taken it down.
@Ian James Burgess: Ya gman because talking about it will make it go away. Does every comment you make about it reduce cases by 1 or what? If you’re so afraid of Covid then stay in your room all day lol
@Celtic Eagle: I dont believe thats true unless you can back that up!……. In the whole of the UK there was 62.4k new cases reported in the week to the 6th of October (From Our World In Data)….. 1 in 40 of population of 1.9 million in the north is around 47.5k people. By what your saying most of the cases in the while of the UK just happen to be in the north……… Then when you say you imagine its the same here that equates to around 125k cases here in a week?!?! Laughable!…… Officially its 2.4k here in the week to 5th of Oct.
@Celtic Eagle: I did. In the last 7 days there was 1,819 cases in the north. Far from 1 in 40 in a population of 1.9million or 47.5k!……. Funny how you can make up stuff and not back it up with links but I can post links…… Link to the NI covid dashboard…… Some dose of fake news out of you!
Hospital numbers here have risen by approx 100 over the last week and the percentage of positive tests by 4%. Thankfully icu numbers haven’t risen. It was 11 last night which is down a couple from this time last month. Vaccines are still important though. The UK are still averaging around 300 covid related deaths per week. Of course they didn’t have the same uptake in vaccines among the older population that we had, especially in ethnic groups. I get my 2nd booster tomorrow and I’m dreading it. Have had reactions to all my shots so far. But needs must.
Good god, sounds like they will only make masks mandatory in certain situations, if it happens, though I’m not holding my breath. Similar to 2020, how they mandated masks in shops and on public transport before other places like covid can’t spread in other areas outside of shops/public transport/healthcare.
Well those of us who are willing to be vaxed are better protected and those who don’t want it can take their own chances, as long as when they do catch it, they have the cop on to stay away from others.
BTW, before anyone mentions it, those who contract it and are vaxed, already show that they have that cop on seeing as they got vaxed in the first place!
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