That's the great thing about running a site like this - no shortage of raw material. In fact, the problem can sometimes be keeping up w...

Gombeen Man is sickened and saddened by the murder of two Polish men by low-life skangers in Drimnagh last Saturday night. Marius Szwajkos...

Maybe there's some hope for this place after all? Dustin the Turkey was cock-a-hoop after being voted ahead of all the other turkeys in...

Fianna Fail councillor excuses exploitation of foreign workers. A Louth County Council member, Jimmy Mulroy (left), who also happens to be a...

What does the Fianna Fail leader of that inherently undemocratic body, the Seanad (Senate), do to justify his existence? Not much, it seems...

NOT THE MAYNOOTH LINE Easing back into the blog after that long poteen-induced lay-off, Gombeen Man is going to brazenly lift a piece from t...

Gombeen man has not been too active in the Blogsphere of late. This was down to a combination of natural indolence and persistent poteen abu...

Or has Gombeen Man got him all wrong? It seems that he treats his workers very well, as five employees of U2 Ltd "shared almost €18 m...

The following - in green - is from a Gaelgoeir who managed to have a letter printed in the Irish Independent, calling for Gaelic to be made...

Given Sinn Fein's tendency to use populist leftist rhetoric when it suits, it is nice to see them forced into showing their true, right-...

In a country where you can drive to the testing centre on a provisional licence, fail, and drive off into the traffic again, it's not su...

Recently, there was a great media hoo-ha over a group of Roma families who encamped on a roundabout in north Dublin. Subsequently, an Irelan...

Umberto Eco attempted to define the characteristics of proto-fascism as the "cult of tradition, a rejection of modernism, the cult of a...

Time for to lift the mood with a bit of Irish wit, rather than bullshit, for a change. Some graffiti spotted in Richmond Street last week: ...

An insider brought the following MySpace page to the attention of Gombeen Man. It's from a group calling itself The Epic Sons of Ireland...

Gombeen Man has observed that many of the dahlings of the Irish media have a 'gra' for the auld 'native tongue'. And why wou...

There's an excellent, and long anticipated (for Gombeen Man, anyway) site warning Irish motorists of the increasingly fat cash-cow that ...

Is there anyone out there who can give an innocent interpretation of this poem by 1916 hero, Padraig Pearse? This was written by him in 1909...