'The Ludicrous' Conor McGregor's latest mismatch - challenging us over facts

Irish Daily Mirror

a day ago

We are happy to find ourselves in such illustrious company. With the Pint of Guinness and Paul McGrath to name just two icons
And now your Irish Mirror has been ushered into this exclusive club of Irish institutions.
The qualifying standard? P*ssing off the Ludicrous Conor McGregor.
The former plumber and ex-UFC champion once engaged in a deluded popularity contest with the Black Pearl for calling out his online bully boy tactics.
He also previously announced his second-rate porter was going to be bigger than the Black Stuff. You can still hear the echoes of the laughter from St James Gate
And now in his latest mismatch he's decided to take us on in a battle of truth and facts.
McGregor didn't like it when we debunked the myths he peddled to his fanboy social media followers about the findings of a civil jury that he violently raped Nikita Hand in a hotel suite on a night out in Dublin.
For the crime of fact checking his rant – and maybe the polite front page headline that he was 'talking through his Aras' - he decided to aim a few of his notorious online cheap shots at our journalism.
We are a 'Government sponsored rag.' Guilty of not telling the Irish people the truth about the dangers they face from a migrant crime wave.
For a one-man crime wave himself – he has .. convictions for public order and traffic to add to his civil rape finding - McGregor sure has a poor grasp of the law. Nikita Hand leaving the Court of Appeal in Dublin (Image: PA Wire/PA Images)
When newspapers report on crime stories we do so within the laws of contempt of court and libel and a hundred other statutes that the loudmouths on social media are illiterate in.
It's why when you read something in a newspaper like this it can still be trusted. And if it's wrong we will say so and pay a price.
It's why we don't go off half baked on social media platforms naming and shaming – usually the wrong people – like the keyboard Ireland-is-full warriors.
But we will certainly see and raise Conor McGregor's contribution to exposing crime and criminals in Ireland.
The Irish Mirror and others like it were doing it while he was still back in Dublin 12 unblocking toilets. (Those were the days).
We have been doing it whether they were immigrant killers like Jozef Puska or homespun scumbags like members of the Kinahan cartel who McGregor has shown no problem rubbing shoulders with in the past.
We pride ourselves in being equally prejudiced in exposing criminal low life activity regardless of race, creed or nationality. Be that an immigrant throwing a petrol bomb at a pub or a little Irelander throwing a punch at an old man inside one.
Not that truth matters in the 'X' bullring, but we were also the first to write about the very incidents McGregor accused us of hiding from the Irish people.
We were the first to reveal a suspected Jihadi terror link to an arson attack on his pub. No fear. No favour. The same reason we call McGregor the presidential wannabe out on lies, disinformation and hypocrisy. Conor McGregor is the perfect First Paddy for Trump's axis of Alpha Bros
And on his peddling of populist solutions to real community problems that always involve punching down on someone smaller than you.
It's the same playbook as his hero Donald Trump who has invented a crime wave in Washington to clear the homeless off his lawn and distract people from reality.
In his role as the 'First Paddy' McGregor has also adopted the MAGA fantasies of Fox News who this week told their viewers of some imaginary Dublin that is seemingly more dangerous than Bogota.
The only greater toll of death than these murder victims that litter the streets of the capital must be all the suicides the Ludicrous One attributed to the Garda traffic corps for policing the streets from maniac drivers like himself.
McGregor has already had the verdict of one random jury of his peers who decided he raped a young woman for kicks on a night out.
I've no doubt the decency of ordinary people would give him the resounding same result again if his name ever goes before the Irish people on a ballot paper.
If it does he can be guaranteed this. Our debunking of lies and coverage of loudmouth bullies and bigshots won't be tapping out.
We plan to keep doing what we've been doing for decades. Like a well-timed Paul McGrath tackle or the perfect pint of Guinness.
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