McGregor brags about breaking ‘eyesockets' as he knocks down footballer during match

Sunday World

22-05-2025

The disgraced MMA fighter lined out for Black Forge FC earlier this month
Conor McGregor has bragged about breaking 'noses and eyesockets' as he shared a picture of himself knocking over a player during a football match.
Taking to Instagram, the 36-year-old MMA fighter shared a series of snaps which show him knocking another player to the ground with his shoulder.
'Get up outta that I've broke noses and eyesockets with this shoulder. #YUPCOOLOCK,' he captioned the post.
The images show McGregor in a Black Forge FC kit as he elbows a player from the other team, knocking them to the ground.
He donned the number 10 shirt for the team during a surprise match appearance on May 10th against St Columbans SYC.
Black Forge Inn won the game 3-0, winning themselves a place in semi-final of the UCFL/AUL Premier Shield.
The Notorious' team did not make it to the final, losing 2-1 to Roc Celtic.
The disgraced fighter often lines out for the squad, and did so earlier this year just days after a judge ordered him to pay Nikita Hand €100,000 of her €250,000 damages and €200,000 of her expected €1.3m legal costs.
Last November a jury found McGregor civilly liable for raping the haircolourist at a hotel in Dublin in 2018.
Both McGregor and James Lawrence, who was also named in the suit, denied raping Ms Hand, insisting they both had consensual sex with her.
During the trial, Ms Hand testified she had been 'brutally raped and battered' by McGregor and at one point thought she was going to die and never see her young daughter again.
The trial heard how Ms Hand and her work colleague Danielle Kealey had been out on December 8, 2018 at a Christmas work party.
Ms Hand wanted to continue partying into the next day and, after contact with McGregor via Instagram, the UFC fighter collected them from the salon where they worked.
The group picked up Lawrence from his home and arrived at the Beacon Hotel around midday.
Ms Hand alleged she was raped by Mr McGregor some time between 12.30pm and 6pm .
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The jury heard she remembered the rape but had gaps in her memory about what happened afterwards.
The jury heard evidence that a tampon was wedged so far inside her vagina it needed to be removed with a forceps in the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit of the Rotunda Hospital, where she presented in a terrified state the following day.
They were also shown photos taken by gardaí two days after the events in the hotel of Ms Hand's badly bruised body.
Ms Hand's lawyers claimed that Lawrence, who came forward to gardaí a day after they had interviewed McGregor in January 2019, was lying and acted as 'a fall guy' or 'patsy' for the sports star.
Both men denied this. McGregor denied they had been 'in cahoots' but accepted he paid for Mr Lawrence's lawyers.
After the jury found McGregor had assaulted Ms Hand in the Beacon Hotel, the mother-of-one spoke outside court where she said that she felt vindicated, and urged victims to 'keep on fighting for justice'.
While the jury found that Lawrence had not assaulted Ms Hand, Justice Alexander Owens later ruled that Ms Hand would not be penalised with having to pay costs for losing her action against Lawrence.
'It would be completely inappropriate to award Mr Lawrence any of his legal costs, even though he succeeded in his case,' the judge said.
Although a jury dismissed her case against Lawrence, the judge found that they had not believed his claim that he and Ms Hand had consensual sex.
'Mr Lawrence was entirely successful in defending the claim but not for the reason advanced in his defence,' the judge said.
Mr Justice Owens said the verdict of the jury was, in his view, on the basis no sex took place between Mr Lawrence and Ms Hand, rather than his claim that they had consensual sex.
He said for this reason he would depart from the normal rule that the losing side pays the costs of the winning side.
The judge said he would make no costs order in relation to Lawrence, which means he must pay his own costs. The court has previously heard Lawrence is a man of limited means and McGregor was covering his legal fees.
McGregor has since launched an appeal, which is set to be heard by the court in July.