Dunphy knocks history of voting ‘gombeen men’

THE Irish electorate has a history of voting for “gombeen men and gombeen women” and “the wrong types”, controversial broadcaster Eamon Dunphy has said.

Mr Dunphy was speaking following the news that a reforming party of big-hitters including David McWilliams, Shane Ross and Fintan O’Toole, and of which Dunphy was a part, is no longer set to contest the general election.

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