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A gombeen man is a pejorative Hiberno-English term used in Ireland for a shady, small-time "wheeler-dealer" businessman or politician who is always looking.

Opponents characterise them as gombeens, and news media have criticised them as populist and lacking any ideology.

O’Flaherty"s expressionist Galway novel The House of Gold that took to task the gombeen men who seized power in the Irish Free State following independence.

far below the rates for unsecured loans that would be charged by the "gombeen men", unscrupulous local moneylenders.

Councillor Hugh McElvaney: I"m not a gombeen and I quoted £10k to make RTE sting "sexy" VIDEO: Damning clip from RTE.