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Sunday World
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Sunday World
Dee Devlin shares new loved-up snap of her and McGregor weeks after kiss scandal
McGregor and his bikini-clad fiancée are seen in one pic with their arms around each other on a sandy beach set against the backdrop of a mountain range Dee Devlin has posted new loved-up snaps of her and Conor McGregor in the wake of a kissing scandal and nude photo claims. McGregor and his bikini-clad fiancée are seen in one pic with their arms around each other on a sandy beach set against the backdrop of a mountain range. She also shared snaps of their children on a luxury boat in Sardinia where they have been celebrating McGregor's 37th birthday on July 14. In another Devlin shows off her figure in a red bikini while reclining on a yacht while, in others the couple are all dressed up ready for dinner and cocktails at the swanky Nikki Beach Cocktail Club in Porto Cervo. The Dublin woman accompanied the photos with a loveheart emoji. McGregor and Dee on a beach in Sardinia News in 90 Seconds - Tuesday, July 29 They have both been posting loved-up content to social media while enjoying their trip in recent days depicting the couple and their children, daughter Croia, five, and sons Conor Jr, eight, Rian, three and Mack, 19 months. McGregor and Devlin have been spending some quality family time together after the 37-year-old MMA fighter was photographed kissing a mystery brunette woman on a beach in Fort Lauderdale. Dee appeared to have dismissed the controversy as she posted a loving tribute to Conor to her Instagram page soon after. She shared a post from a fan account on her Instagram story which read: 'Happy Birthday to the person who always keeps Dee entertained and makes her smile.' The couple dressed up for dinner However, just hours later Azealia Banks shared alleged nude photos of Conor that she claims he had sent her and also claimed that he threatened her not to share them. Dee has been a key player in the MMA star's story, supporting him when he was jobless and focused on making it as a professional fighter. After leaving school at 15, she held down several jobs and worked as a waitress and a model before she met McGregor in 2008, when she was working in a nightclub. The couple moved in to McGregor's parents' attic when paying rent was a challenge. Once the UFC fighter's career began to take off, she began working on his team. The pair have been together for 15 years and got engaged in August 2020 after Conor proposed while they were celebrating his birthday. A year later McGregor told an Irish media outlet that his wedding would be 'extravagant' and take place in Ireland. Dee was present in court during McGregor's trial in 2024, when he lost his civil rape trial. She also attacked the character of victim Nikita Hand in a series of messages on her Instagram stories. In the posts, she wrote: 'Conor and I dealt with these issues privately many years ago, as should be done in a relationship and we have come out stronger than ever. 'We have four beautiful children now whose smiling faces and happy hearts are a testament to who he is and who we are!' We recently revealed how Devlin has shared in more than €1m in fees paid to directors of Conor McGregor's management company over three years. Having spent a decade working to promote her fiancé's brand, the former model and influencer has reaped the rewards, sharing fees of €342,750 with two other directors in 2023, €351,184 in 2022 and €339,617 in 2021. The 37-year-old earned the fees as a director of McGregor Sports and Entertainment where she has been on the board for more than a decade, alongside McGregor's long-standing business partner, Alan Geraghty, who is also group CEO. The sizeable fees are a fraction of what Dee is believed to earn as a key member of McGregor's business team. She has served on the boards of most of his Irish-registered companies, including his online media business, TheMacLife. She was briefly director and secretary at Jemi Ventures Limited, the company that developed and runs The Black Forge Inn in Crumlin. She resigned from five McGregor companies in February last year and as company secretary of McGregor Sports and Entertainment. She remains a director of the company, which had a retained income of €506,475 in 2023 and 30 staff. McGregor is its sole shareholder.
USA Today
4 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Early surprise emerges at a key position battle in training camp for the 49ers
The San Francisco 49ers may quickly wrap up one of their key defensive position battles. Third-year linebacker Dee Winters appears to be the frontrunner for the starting Will LB job through the first couple days of training camp. The WLB plays all three downs alongside Fred Warner, and the absence of a high-level playmaker at the position played a major role in San Francisco's defensive struggles a season ago. Finding a player to adequately replace Dre Greenlaw after Greenlaw left to join the Denver Broncos in free agency is key for the 49ers re-opening a Super Bowl window. Through two training camp practices signs point toward Winters getting the nod over 2025 third-round pick Nick Martin. Winters has gotten the first-team WLB reps to open camp, and Warner has noticed an improvement in the 24-year-old. "I've seen a lot of growth, honestly,' Warner told reporters on Wednesday. 'I've seen a guy who's ready to take that next step. You know, Dee has flashed in a big way through his first two seasons. And I think Year 3 is that year where it's like, 'Man, I know the system. I know what I needed to do in the offseason. And now it's time for me to take control and really put it on tape.' I'm excited for Dee, really.' Defensive coordinator Robert Saleh hasn't been with the 49ers while Winters has been with the club, but he noted Thursday in a press conference that injuries and the roster have never allowed Winters to take any substantial leap. "And so again just like any young guy, the only way they're going to get better is with reps," Saleh said. "And so young guys like Dee, their growth can get stunted when they're sitting on the bench just watching. There's nothing like doing. And so he had an opportunity the last half of last year to get some reps in and it just feels like every day he's learning something again, just through repetition. So, knock on wood, hopefully he can continue to stay healthy and absorb every single one of these reps and learn all the nuance that's required to play linebacker. I think if he does, he's going to be a fun player to watch.' It's a bit of a surprise that Winters burst on the scene this way. Last season was a mixed bag in his 398 defensive snaps. The 49ers went so far as to select Martin in the third round of this year's draft. That choice was a clear indication that San Francisco felt the need to draft a potential starter at WLB. Our assumption entering camp was that Martin would have the inside track to one of the most important open starting jobs on the 49ers' roster. Early indications are that that assumption was incorrect. If Winters plays well enough to earn the nod over the rookie third-round pick, it would be a great sign for San Francisco's defense as it tries to bounce back from its dreary 2024 performance. More 49ers: Future Hall of Famer explains why it 'sucks' practicing against 49ers' top draft pick
Irish Examiner
4 days ago
- Health
- Irish Examiner
Delaying alcohol warning labels prioritises profiteering over health, says Irish Medical Organisation
The Government's decision to delay the roll-out of warning labels on alcohol ignores health in favour of corporate interests and profiteering, the president of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has warned. As Ireland continues to experience worsening rates of liver disease, alcohol-related cancers, and foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), the planned roll-out of alcohol health information labelling has been delayed until 2028 at the earliest. The decision to delay the introduction of health warnings was approved this week by the Cabinet amid concerns the plan would undermine Irish trade competitiveness internationally. The labels, which warn of the health-related risks of alcohol and its link with cancer, had been due to come into effect in May 2026. President of the IMO, Dr Anne Dee, a consultant in public health, described the move as a 'serious threat to public health'. 'It will result in preventable incidences of cancer, increased incidences of liver disease, and harm to children because of a refusal to fully enact a bill signed into law seven years ago.' Labelling provisions under the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 are a critical tool in reducing alcohol-related harm, she added. An estimated 4.8% of babies born in Ireland suffer from FASD, which represents the third-highest incidence rate of the disorder in the world. 'This is about giving people the basic information that alcohol causes cancer, liver damage, and harm during pregnancy,' Dr Dee added. 'These are irrefutable facts. There is no excuse for keeping them off the label. The longer this Government delays, the more irreversible damage is done.' Dr Dee also criticised what she described as "the influence of vested interests in opposing the measure". 'We welcome the fact that the Government recently reiterated its refusal to meet with representatives of the tobacco industry in keeping with Ireland's obligations under international frameworks that recognise health-harming industries. But why is the alcohol industry, which produces a substance that results in the deaths of up to 1,500 people in Ireland every year, treated differently?' Lack of courage She called on the Government to implement all measures in the Public Health (Alcohol) Act, adding: "This delay shows a lack of courage and clarity when it comes to confronting the alcohol industry's influence, and an inability to act on the commercial determinants of health.' The Government decision to delay the introduction of alcohol health warnings comes against the backdrop of fears for Irish business from US trade tariffs proposed by Donald Trump. Ibec organisation Drinks Ireland welcomed the move and said it provided 'much-needed relief' for drinks producers in Ireland.
Times
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Times
John Simpson: ‘My first home cost £10,500. I'm sure I overpaid'
John Simpson joined the BBC in 1966 and has reported from more than a hundred countries, covering war zones in Baghdad, Kabul and Libya and the Tiananmen Square massacre. He was left deaf in one ear after coming under friendly fire in northern Iraq — an attack that killed a member of his crew. Now 80, he is still the BBC's world affairs editor and presents Unspun World with John Simpson on BBC2. He has won an Emmy and three Baftas, and was made a CBE in the Gulf War honours list for his reporting. He has two daughters from his first marriage and now lives with his South African wife, Dee, their son, Rafe, and their Irish terrier, Cody, in Oxford. Nothing, because I've given up carrying cash almost altogether, which poses a problem when I want to buy a Big Issue from a couple of sellers I like and admire. Yes, I can pay with a debit card but what they really want is a nice crisp fiver or tenner. In the days when I was criss-crossing the world as a foreign correspondent, though, cash was king. I'd often fly out of Heathrow with a great wad of notes, usually dollars, stuffed into a money-belt so as to grease whoever's palms needed greasing. I once flew out to Uruguay during the Falklands War, with the intention of entering Argentina, with $150,000 on me. I remember looking down on the area of London where I lived, and thinking: 'I've got more money on me than my house is worth.' As late as the 1990s, I would have to pay $5,000 to $6,000 in cash to a local TV station in some places to send my pieces to London. I prefer using a debit card because I just hate the idea of getting into debt without my knowing it; I'd rather pay for something with money I have in the bank. I also dislike the idea of being charged 14 per cent or 20 per cent interest, or whatever the rate is, if I forget to pay off my credit card. Occasionally, I have to use a credit card when I travel, though. I'm more of a spender. I like to lead a pleasant, enjoyable life so I spend whatever I can afford to spend. It's a matter of living in the present. My life has shown me that you never know where you're going to be next Wednesday, so you might as well live a good life while you can. My last big expense? Dining out at Rules in London with my wife — and son — to celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary, which must have cost a few hundred pounds. I'm actually not that good with money. Dee, who was my TV producer, is much better at handling that side of things. Producers are like parent figures, leading us foreign correspondents by the hand. The first property I bought was a terraced cottage in Greenwich, which I paid £10,500 for in 1970 — property prices were just starting to go up, but I was too embarrassed to tell people I'd paid the extra £500 because I thought they'd think I'd been conned. Within a couple of years, though, it had zoomed up in value. I went on to live all around the world and often spent weeks at a time living out of a suitcase while on assignment. Dee and I now have a delightful mews house in central Oxford, something rather special and unusual. Rafe comes back often from university and Cody thinks of his room as his kingdom. We're very happy here. I had a comfortable enough upbringing, financially at least. I was an only child. My mother, Joyce, left my father, Roy, when I was about seven. I can't say I blame her because he was a difficult man to live with. Nonetheless, after they split up, I opted to live with my dad — a property developer and genealogist who only lived to 65 (my mum lived a fair bit longer) — at his big house on the Suffolk coast which he bought for £3,000 in the 1950s and sold for £6,000 in 1966. It's now worth millions. • Read more money advice and tips on investing from our experts Enough to dine out at a good restaurant with my family and buy nice things that catch my eye. Working as a sub-editor in the BBC radio newsroom when I was 22. I was so excited to learn that I was going to be getting paid £1,025 a year that I danced round my flat with my wife at the time. However, I absolutely loathed the job — I felt like I was in a prisoner of war camp and wanted to dig my way out. I managed to do that after 18 months, when I became a radio producer, which was much more fun. I've seen many 'crises for the BBC' come and go over the years. Some do certainly mean we should examine ourselves more carefully, but an awful lot are played up by newspapers which are in direct commercial competition with it. • Christopher Biggins: Porridge paid £90 an episode. I'm a Celebrity paid £50k When I became the BBC's Europe correspondent, based in Brussels, in 1975. By then I was on a pretty good salary, though the price of everything in Belgium was staggeringly high. Things seem to have gone full circle, though, and I think living in the UK may now be more expensive. Often. I got married in my last year as an English literature student at Cambridge and my then wife and I lived on £10 a week, after paying the rent. Every now and then, though, I'd have to call my dad and ask: 'Could you see your way to lending me a fiver?' I've since learnt that Samuel Pepys lived on £5 a week in the 1660s. I've no idea the minimum amount a week you'd need to get by now, but it ain't ten pounds. Writing my book A Mad World, My Masters, which came out in 2000. It was about my life as a foreign correspondent but it spent six months on the Sunday Times bestseller list, going on to sell about a million copies. Mind you, I never got one big, fat cheque — it was more a case of the money arriving in dribs and drabs. • Simon Reeve: Al-Qaeda made me a bestselling author — and quite a bit of cash Not really. I'm not sure, to be honest, though I'm obviously old enough to get my state pension. But I don't have plans to retire anyway; I'd like to still be working at 99, like David Attenborough. Becoming a foreign correspondent was the best thing I ever did, though it was really the BBC's decision rather than mine. It was something I'd wanted to do since I was a kid, and the foreign correspondent's life suited me. The highlights have included witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of South Africa's apartheid regime. But bad things happened too — I was taken prisoner, tortured and given a mock execution in Beirut in 1982. My first car, a bright yellow MG Midget, which cost about £2,500, was great fun to drive. But I'm 6ft 2in tall, so how I fitted into it I just don't know. When I last tried getting into a Midget a couple of years ago, I seemed to be sticking out of it in all sorts of extraordinary ways. I bought a magnificent vase from a reputable dealer in Beijing for a few hundred bucks some years ago. It was sold to me as a northern Song dynasty vase from the 12th century, and had pride of place in our house until I had it dated by experts. Guess what? It was a fake. I had always doubted whether it was genuine, but the dealer was so amusing I parted with the cash and I did like the look of the vase. 'You got took,' my son, Rafe, joked. I spend too much money on books but owning a first edition of Dickens's David Copperfield, which I picked up for about £500, has given me a huge amount of pleasure. I spend a fair bit on travelling too. Not extravagant as much as exotic, perhaps: a wonderful Tilley hat that I bought in South Africa for the equivalent of about £70, which I wore everywhere in the tropics. However, it was on the back seat of a car that got blown up by an American bomb in Iraq in 2003. A colleague rescued the hat, which had been shredded, and I sent it back to Tilley who mended it for me. You can still see the patches where it was shredded by shrapnel. When you get to my age your priority is to just keep your head above water, financially and otherwise. • Amber Butchart: I've always bought second-hand. I love a car boot sale I'm not into buying big houses, I'd rather just go on lots of nice holidays until the money ran out. I'd also continue donating money to homelessness charities and to Free the Wild, which rescues animals being kept in horrible conditions in zoos and circuses. Never take it for Simpson's Leaders & Lunatics tour starts on September 11 until November 16;
Scottish Sun
6 days ago
- Sport
- Scottish Sun
Dundee boss Steven Pressley trolled by Scots football club as they blast ‘the only thing getting rattled is your club'
Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) STEVEN PRESSLEY might have his first win as Dundee boss under his belt but the pressure hasn't gone away. Although this time around, it's another Scottish football CLUB who are attempting to pile it on. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 3 Dundee appointed Steve Pressley as manager at the beginning of June Credit: Kenny Ramsay 3 Pressley's endured a difficult start as Dee boss Credit: Michael Schofield Former Scotland star Pressley, 51, was a shock appointment as Dundee manager last month. The ex-Celtic, Hearts and Rangers defender was confirmed as Tony Docherty's replacement after the latter's shock sacking after the end of last season. There's been a big turnaround in players at Dundee with key men Lyall Cameron and Josh Mulligan among those to have moved on. Pressley might've been hoping the Premier Sports Cup would've given him the chance to make a strong start to his time in charge. But a 1-0 home defeat to Championship side Airdrieonians in the opening group match instantly piled the pressure on. And that only intensified when Pressley's side were defeated 1-0 again in their second game, this time by third tier Alloa. The back-to-back defeats ended Dundee's hopes of progression and they are OUT of the competition at the first hurdle. Last night, Pressley and his side took on Bonnyrigg Rose in an away clash and for periods, it looked like another horror result could be on the cards. Clark Robertson had given Dee the lead before Cameron Ross levelled things up for the non-league outfit, who were relegated out of the SPFL last season. Emile Acquah and Billy Koumetio both struck inside the final five minutes of the game to spare their team's blushes and give Pressley a first win in charge. Scottish Premiership club enlist Hollywood superstar to sell their £95M new stadium and hotel plans With Bonnyrigg having just replaced their pitch, the game was held at Whitehill Welfare's Ferguson Park home. But Pressley wasn't happy with THEIR surface in the aftermath of the game. After the 3-1 win, he said: "It certainly wasn't vintage. The pitch made it a very difficult night's work. "Credit to our players, they showed a really good mentality. "We found ourselves 1-1 with the clock running down and we kept pushing and going at it and in the end got a very much deserved in. "But as I said, it was a difficult evening, a real leveller the pitch. "When you come here on the back of a couple of disappointing results and the pitch being how it is, it was a real banana skin for us so as I said, well done to the players." Those comments didn't go down well at all with Whitehill Welfare. The East of Scotland League club's official X account responded directly to Dundee's post containing Pressley's post match thoughts. The club blasted: "I think our pitch is the least of your worries Steven. "Good luck for the rest of your time in charge." A Dundee fan bit back, telling Whitehill Welfare they had been "rattled" by the manager's comments. The club weren't done there, and fired back at the support. They said: "The only thing getting rattled is your club on a weekly basis. Airdrie, Alloa etc etc." Dundee close out their Premier Sports Cup group stage campaign - and indeed campaign as a whole - with a home clash with Montrose on Saturday afternoon. They then begin the Premiership season by taking on Hibs at Dens Park before a trip to face Rangers at Ibrox. 3 Whitehill Welfare weren't happy with Steven Pressley's comments Credit: X/@WHITEHILWELFARE Keep up to date with ALL the latest news and transfers at the Scottish Sun football page
