Eilis O’Hanlon on RTÉ’s Swindlers: ‘Hungry Celtic Tigers hid in the long grass, ready to devour the unwary’

Con artists are often portrayed on screen as comic or heroic figures. Think Sergeant Bilko, or Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting. The people they’re cheating out of money tend to be far worse than they are, so our sympathies stay with the tricksters.