David McWilliams will be joining Into Kildare through Zoom as a guest speaker on Wednesday 15th July 2020 at 11am.

David McWilliams is an economist, author, journalist, documentary-maker and broadcaster. David is ranked 10th most influential economist in the world. He has devoted his entire professional life to the objective of making economics as widely available and easily understandable on as many platforms and to as many people as possible.

As a result, he co-founded the world’s only economics and stand-up comedy festival Kilkenomics – described by the FT as “simply, the best economics conference in the world”. He also founded Ireland’s leading literary and ideas shindig, the Dalkey Book Festival. The WEF at Davos debased their currency profoundly by making him a Young Global Leader a few years back.

 As well as writing a weekly economics column in the Irish Times, he is active on social media and was named Ireland’s “most influential Twitter user” in 2016. David uses new ways to explain our economic world and deploy cartoons to make economics digestible for normal, non-nerdy, punters.

Commercial and services: Creches for all other people can reopen on a limited bases. Hairdressers and barbers can reopen.

Gatherings: Hospital visits can resume. Sometime after this point schools will reopen.

Leisure: Theatres, cinemas, nightclubs and casinos can reopen, but all where social distancing measures can function. Festivals and cultural gatherings can resume but with limited attendance (large weddings will be restricted). Close contact sports, including rugby and boxing, can come back, as can gym activity where high standards of cleaning are employed. Attendances at sports events will resume but with restrictions on numbers. So, too, can indoor activities such as bowling and bingo halls.

Work: Phased return to normal.