Conor McGregor’s father has launched a scathing attack against Labour TD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin after the politician called the fighter a “gobdaw”.
Tony McGregor has warned Mr Ó Ríordáin to “keep my son’s name out of your filthy mouth” after the politician lambasted Conor in the Dail on Monday night during a fiery debate. The Labour TD branded Conor a "gobdaw" after he delivered a powerful speech accusing politicians of "surrendering" to the far-right.
Speaking to the Irish Mirror, Tony fumed: “Whilst I myself am apolitical and I don’t involve myself in the daily machinations of an Dail Eireann, however in answer to ‘Amadán’ O’Riordán calling my son a gobdaw – keep my son’s name out of your filthy mouth.
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“The people of your constituency will have the answers for you in 2025,” as he alluded that Mr Ó Ríordáin could be set to lose his seat in the next election.
The row comes after Mr Ó Ríordáin said in the Dail that far-right groups have been using "vile and violent language" to fuel their anti-immigrant agenda.
McGregor was name checked in the Dail as a “gobdaw” by Mr Ó Ríordáin.
During a fiery debate, he said “Now we have the pathetic sight of security barriers outside Leinster House, which looks to me like we have surrendered to them. That is now what we have to look at the national Parliament. Those barriers need to be taken down.
“All the while there are celebrities such as Conor McGregor, a gobdaw, and people in this Chamber who use the words ‘criminality’ and ‘immigration’ in the same sentence as often as they can to get some cheap political gain for themselves.”
It comes after we revealed the Dublin father of three, who is expecting a fourth child with fiancée Dee Devlin, is officially part of an investigation by gardai over alleged incitement to hatred around the Dublin riots last Thursday.
Commissioner Drew Harris previously revealed to Dublin City Council ’s Joint Policing Committee earlier this week that there are now three live investigations over the horrific events of last Thursday.
They involved one on the stabbing of the girl, one on the riots, and another on social media commentary suspected of inciting hate.
We learned that following an examination of recent social media remarks by the UFC star, McGregor is now part of a wider official probe which was formally alluded to yesterday by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris.
McGregor caused outrage when he tweeted that Ireland was “at war” and “you reap what you sow” on X, formerly known as Twitter last week. But he since has condemned the riots as “despicable”.
He tweeted on Friday: “I do not condone last night’s riots. I do not condone any attacks on our first responders in their line of duty. I do not condone looting and the damaging of shops. Last night’s scenes achieved nothing toward fixing the issues we face.”
On Tuesday night, his father Tony tweeted a picture of Conor in a mock-up photo of him wearing a crown, saying: “No scapegoat here.”
He accompanied the picture with The Chieftain’s song, The Foggy Dew. Tony told us that his son will “not be made a scapegoat for the government’s failed policies”.
“My son will not be a scapegoat for the government’s failed policies that has put this country into several recession and one complete bank bailout,” he said.
And he said that since Conor’s name was mentioned in the Dail on Monday, Tony said there will come a day when the Crumlin fighter could consider a career move into politics.
He added: “Whilst my son’s name is mentioned in Dail Eireann, there will come a time his name will reverberate through the same Teachta Dála with the full backing of the decent people of Ireland and the dispossessed people of Ireland.”
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