Conor McGregor has intensified his campaign against the Irish government, issuing what amounts to a rallying cry for a national work stoppage as his frustration with Dublin’s political establishment reaches a new peak.
The former UFC champion took to social media with a series of messages directed at Ireland’s top officials, warning that those responsible for what he sees as the systematic unraveling of Irish society would not escape accountability.
In a video address that quickly circulated online, McGregor delivered a message to the country’s leadership: “You will not destroy Ireland and be free to walk away and that is a fact.”
He also noted, “Delegates and then off they go on their merry way after a running riot on Ireland and you know zero accountability of doing so, and it’s no more. I’m not sure where else people will go in this small island.”
The outburst comes on the heels of a court case involving his sister Aoife’s Dublin-based tanning business, Stop N Glow Ltd. According to sources, it pleaded guilty to selling sunbed use to a 16-year-old and allowing them into a restricted zone after a Health Service Executive operative conducted an undercover compliance check. The teenager purchased three minutes of tanning time without being asked for identification or proof of age.
McGregor seized on the media coverage of the case, resharing a post that framed the attention given to his sister’s salon as a calculated distraction.
The post read: “RTÉ distracts by slamming a tanning salon for selling a 3-minute sunbed session to one 16-year-old. Meanwhile, RTÉ’s own children’s charity appeal is bankrolling predatory NGOs like TENI who sell irreversible harm to young children such as chemical castration and damaging or removing healthy organs as a path to their ‘true identity’.”
The salon story landed amid an already charged atmosphere between McGregor and the country’s political figures. Tánaiste Simon Harris had previously drawn McGregor’s ire after publicly praising Oscar-winning actress Jessie Buckley while taking a pointed swipe at the MMA star, a move that provoked a fierce response.
McGregor branded Harris “a cancer to Ireland” and described Taoiseach Micheál Martin as “a worm” in a wide-ranging social media tirade timed around St Patrick’s Day.
His criticism did not stop there. McGregor also turned his attention to President Catherine Connolly, labelling her “godless” and accusing her of distorting the story of Ireland’s patron saint.
He wrote, “As our Godless president disrespects our religion again and lies on the story of St Patrick to suit her twisted globalist agenda.”
The president had used her St Patrick’s Day address to draw a parallel between the saint, who was himself trafficked to Ireland as a slave before his return as a missionary, and the treatment of migrants in modern Irish society.
McGregor also made a high-profile bid for the Irish presidency, at one point pushing for changes to constitutional eligibility rules to allow a direct public vote on who could appear on the ballot. He ultimately withdrew from the race following what he described as careful consideration.
