McGregor's Dublin Troubles: From Rape Verdict to Trump Invite, Notorious Stays in Spotlight

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Conor McGregor stays firmly in the headline crosshairs this week, both for his relentless personal brand and for controversies that refuse to leave him in peace. The most significant and serious development was Ireland's Court of Appeal upholding a civil jury's ruling ordering McGregor to pay over four hundred forty thousand dollars in damages to Nikita Hand, who accused him of rape in a Dublin hotel in late 2018. With the judgment reaffirmed at the end of July, McGregor quickly broke his silence on X, denying he had ever made a cash offer to settle and instead alleging that it was Hand’s team who asked for three million euros after being “caught in a lie under oath.” McGregor insists the encounter was consensual and that press stories of a secret one-million-euro offer were fabricated, claiming, “The truth will set you free” while saying he was yachting off Italy when the verdict came down, according to the Times of India.

With his public image battered at home and business endorsements reportedly cooling, McGregor has shifted focus from fighting to politics and high-profile alliances, leveraging his star power in new arenas. He remains a media magnet despite an extended absence from MMA competition, but the calls for an in-cage comeback have grown louder as he posted new training footage and officially rejoined the UFC testing pool, which Jake Paul, never missing a jab, openly mocked on social media according to Yardbarker.

Unbowed by political gatekeeping in Ireland, McGregor has launched a petition to bypass traditional candidate requirements and get his name on the presidential ballot, using platforms like Change dot org to argue that direct support from the people should eclipse political nominations. As reported by Cageside Press and Men’s Journal, his campaign is struggling to gather traction with fewer than eight thousand signatures so far, but McGregor is undeterred, telling fans he is fighting for a “more inclusive and democratic” Ireland. His increasingly vocal attacks on the Irish political establishment—sometimes aired on big stages like Tucker Carlson’s show—only emphasize how thoroughly his energy has moved from the Octagon to the public square, a pivot enthusiastically backed by Donald Trump.

Speaking of, McGregor made waves on X by inviting President Trump to Dublin’s Black Forge Inn, his own much-awarded pub, promising him “the best Coke in all Ireland” and hyping the upcoming November visit with memes and banter, as reported by AS USA and Essentially Sports. While polls show the Irish public is far less enthusiastic about a Trump visit than McGregor, he continues to play up the alliance, seeing himself as cut from the same headline-grabbing, rule-breaking cloth.

All these stunts and statements keep McGregor written deep into the global celebrity ledger, even as legal setbacks, political aspirations, and relentless self-promotion threaten to crowd out what once made him famous: fighting. The world watches, critics howl, but the Notorious refuses to leave the stage.

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