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Matt Treacy ✒ Former world UFC Champion Conor McGregor has tweeted support for the people of East Wall who are continuing to protest against the placing of a migrant accommodation centre in the area.


I stand with the people of East Wall. And no I do not want to be a politician. Just that they have to answer to me. https://t.co/AGHSBrrrPi

— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) December 17, 2022

His declaration of support for his fellow Dubs has garnered a considerable, and climbing, number of likes and the many comments on the post are overwhelmingly supportive. One of the responses led to his informally throwing his hat into the ring as a possible successor to President Michael D. Higgins who must depart Áras an Uachtaráin in 2025 unless the NGOs stage a coup and reinstall him as President for life.

Having cast my eye on any of the other likely contenders, if the bould Conor does manage to secure a nomination, and his support for East Wall will not have boosted his chances within the Party – apologies, the parties because of course they all differ fundamentally on, em,…. – then he may have the tentative vote of growing numbers of people who feel increasingly unrepresented by their TDs.

I’d fancy my chances of correcting that. https://t.co/oTqQJQPWss

— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) December 17, 2022

Meanwhile the protests have continued, with another successful blockade of the Port tunnel having taken place on Friday evening during rush hour traffic, against leading to considerable traffic disruption across the city centre and approaches.

The resilience of the protestors over the past weeks has led to evident unease among the political establishment.


This week a report in the Phoenix which regularly publishes stories that seem to reflect the internal views of senior Sinn Féin figures commented on the fact that some of the party’s “less sophisticated support base … may be susceptible to crude nationalism.” Pretty pathetic given where Sinn Féin are coming from historically, but reflective of the disjunct between the left liberal staffers and leadership and many of their traditional voters in Dublin and elsewhere.

Meanwhile, one of the participants in the East Wall protests has challenged Conor McGregor to put his money where his mouth is.

Well if u stand with us here in East Wall come down and stand with us on the cold night's on the streets


Matt Treacy is the author of Houses Of Pain

Conor McGregor Stands With East Wall As Protests Continue

Prior to the Conor McGregor-Donald Cerrone fight Daithi O’Donnabhain set out his stall in relation to McGregor, a fighter he had long admired. Its publication was delayed due to a miscommunication.

On January 18th Irish MMA star Conor McGregor returns against Donald Cerrone in a 170lb bout at the T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, for UFC 246.

Its his first fight since the utter debacle that ensued in and out of the octagon after his 155lb title fight against current champion Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229, in October 2018, where he was unable to withstand the barrage unleashed by his opponent and tapped out in the fourth round. Khabib hadn't exacted enough punishment as he felt Conor and his team deserved so carried on the fight by vaulting the cage into McGregors cornermen, which then spread the violence out into the crowd. Irish fans were unprepared as gangs of Muslims hunted them down on the Las Vegas strip, setting upon them mercilessly, and then filming their splayed out victims to commemorate the total national humiliation inflicted on us.

The Irish newspapers naturally sensed an opportunity to complete the destruction of a person they never accepted and thus they could barely conceal their glee at the loss, according to one porcine contributor:

  "...He's no elite sportsman and now he has got his comeuppance. He was humiliated..." 

One ‘never-was’ thought it appropriate to ponder:
“...sad McGregor facing the grim reality of a has been...”

These are but two example of many I could have selected from scum I wouldn’t deign to name in the predatory press. It simply made me wish to hold him even closer, to defend him even more vigorously. But allegations to emerge subsequently are of such a severe nature I have had to relax my protective grip of him, namely [Redacted due to Irish Libel Laws] and a violent unprovoked attack on a grey haired man enjoying a lunchtime drink. A video of the latter incident shows an old(ish) man simply refusing to be given some of Conor's promotional whiskey before a toast, a ‘disrespect’ for which he was then ‘sucker punched’ when he turned his back on Conor. Its an indefensible attack on a member of the community who should expect protection by the strong, not predation by the strong.

 Up to this point, Conor had threatened to transcend the sport of MMA, and as being Irish became culturally cool again on the global stage I thought he might become an avatar of implicit Irish identity. Here was something vivid and vital for people to coalesce around, part of it is a unifying myth of the fighting Irish, manifest with such stark ferocity by Conor as to break barriers between individuals down. It didn’t matter how true it all was, we had these moments which each other, now. It was not to be.

In hindsight there were some ‘red flags’ before the fight that would indicate a general malaise in his camp, that has been subsequently confirmed as present by Conor himself when he admitted he was not as committed to his training regimen as he had been for previous bouts. The pre-229 press conferences were absent psychological onslaught he inflicts on his opponents, often with real wit and charm. He was drinking and promoting his (then) new whiskey brand, and resorted to cringe inducing attacks on a tactically quiet Khabib. Amongst some of the insults, Conor tried to create some difficulty in the Russian and Dagestani identities Khabib straddles, and called Khabib's father a coward for (correctly) not seeking to violently address historic animosities when meeting Russian/Dagestani/Chechen heads of State.

For all his relative silence and (according to Conor) language capabilities during the presser, Khabib still had the best line when he queried why if Ireland is a fighting nation, he is always speaking in English when Ireland has its own language! It was a brutal takedown that portended the fight. Conor resorted to mocking Khabibs pronunciation in the said English language, just one of the (at least) five languages he is said to speak. It was a cringe inducing bully dynamic that has persisted after the fight as Conor taunts him on twitter for an undeserved rematch and Khabib replies simply “[Redacted]. You are a [Redacted]”.

Although there have been even fewer opportunities for the press to meet and examine Conor before this bout than there was for UFC 229 (which itself had Conor refusing to do as many media requests as normally required), the few bits of information that has been revealed give cause for alarm. His head coach John Kavaunagh has indicated that the camp for Cerrone was designed/dictated entirely by Conor himself since according to Kavaunagh, and I paraphrase ‘he [Conor] knows more about fighting than all of us put together’. A fighter designing his routine and being successful has not been done before, which doesn’t preclude this being another ‘first’ for Conor, but it seems improbable, it smacks more of ego. A return to the regimen that yielded such historic results along with performances of a timeless beauty would of seemed more desirable.

But this preview will differ from the structure of ones done for his previous fights. I will not be aggregating the key factors to indicate who the victor is likely to be, it doesn’t matter what the outcome is. Whoever the winner may be, it feels the Irish have lost already.


Daithi O’Donnabhain describes himself as "a regular sh*tposter on TPQ”

The King Is Dead

Daithi O’Donnabhain examines the recently announced UFC bout between Conor McGregor & Khabib Nurmagamedov. 

Return Of The King

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