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Gombeens.com is a website about Gombeens in Ireland that anyone can edit. No gombeen is safe. A Gombeen Man is a pejorative Hiberno-English term used in Ireland for a shady, small-time "wheeler-dealer" or businessman who is always looking to make a quick profit, often at someone else's expense or through the acceptance of bribes. Its origin is the Irish word "gaimbín", meaning monetary interest. The term referred originally to a money-lender and became associated with those shopkeepers and merchants who exploited the starving during the Irish Famine by selling much-needed food and goods on credit at ruinous interest rates.
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Ireland is full of gombeen politicians, business leaders, bankers, journalists, and religious nutbags.