Conor McGregor

You know what is funny, when I hear foreigners giving out about Ireland letting too many foreigners into the country. 🤦‍♂️ it happens more than you think and is very strange.

Where does that sit with the people who were rioting during the week, seeing as they weren't really decent people?

Birds/scumbags of a feather and that

Immigration or whatever other wedge issue that is brought up are just distractions from what is actually causing harm.

We need access to housing for all. Secure employment contracts. An end to car dependent building. Fight poverty.

Billy Bleach aka comedian Simon Day put it best a few years ago. ‘Don’t fight each other, fight power’

Beating up immigrants, protesting library books etc etc achieves nothing. Stopping someone with different colour skin from living on your road isn’t going to put food on your table or make sure there are teachers in the schools, ensure after school activities have funding, stop drug addiction centres in deprived areas being closed down with no notice (as happened in Clondalkin this week.)

Protest that. Stand up for that. Help each other and hold our politicians to account. We put them there. Remind them of that.

Ignore these people with no mandate. And fringe politicians that are powerless. They can do nothing and the attention only feeds their egos.

Conor McGregor couldn’t get a pothole or street light fixed.

I’d be interested in seeing Mac G’s political manifesto and giving it a read and then see about voting for his party.

I’d be in favour of seriously managed migration and much reduced numbers coming in.

But He seems to want ireland to leave the EU?

That’s a lot of business support gone straight off the bat.

If he got his party members into those roles then as Conor does say .... Vegas Baby!!!

I would also add stopping foreigners from living on your street is not going to bring back a world where "everyone knows their neighbours" or "a community"

People knew their neighbours because they had no one else to talk to. I live in a 100% white Irish area but now I can use my phone/laptop talk to my friends who I actually like all around the world rather than my neighbours who I have nothing in common with other than geography.

This community sht was peddled all through Brexit too so no surprise those little fools cosplaying as English hooligans talking about how "Irish lives ma-ar" are copying it.

His manifesto is he is a racist simple as. How would anyone take anything he say seriously, he is coked off his head most of the time. And him calling people wasters and spongers, he was on the dole himself for years before he got lucky in the UFC by fighting in a division where all the other fighters were way smaller than him.

My point is - rural Ireland (in general) see Mac G as a “dirty loudmouth jackeen scummer” type - they wouldn’t dream of voting for him.

Add that to his alleged sexual assault baggage - not good for asking women to vote for him?

BUT ... if he got a few “trusted” celebs into his party - I’m thinking prominent retired GAA players like I named, or someone like Marty Morrissey, Daithi O Shea, Nevin McGuire, profiles like that?

Whatsoever about the women, Rural men would be more open to it.

Then it would be more of a prospect for a national movement and not just Dublin and environs.

I think the number of people who would support a trump type in Ireland is very small, the majority of Irish people are decent people who arent racist and would have no interest in voting for someone who hates foreigners. Thankfully.

I agree, there is a parochialism in this country that is bizarre to me. Rose tinted spectacles and all that. Or memories of a time that never existed. Ireland was a grim place for a long time, a backwater.

Someone was telling me years ago that there was a scheme in the 70’s or 80’s in Dublin to free up council houses, that people above a certain income were helped to purchase a new house in a private estate elsewhere so that the council could keep the existing house rented.

This hollowed out communities where good people who were community leaders and had support of their neighbours were gone. This gave scum/drug pushers a foothold in these areas and it has affected the generations in those communities ever since.

Good role models gone. Anyone who does do well for themselves gets out as soon as they can.

Poverty and housing are what need to be tackled. You won’t fix them overnight but that is drum we need to be banging. Not anti-migrant, anti-trans etc…

A problem with McGregor is that the bulk of his followers / fans are young working class males. It's a bit reckless of him to be pushing far right talking points about immigration on his social media channels....there surely is an onus on him to behave more responsibly.

By all means be a role model, but don't use it to push dodgy or shady stuff that could cause actual harm to people.

If Musk didnt own twitter, id say mcgregor would be banned from the site.

I’ve had a lot to drink…..

I don't know why people are taking social cues from a coked up alleged woman beater

There is no indication that conor McGregor is going into politics or that he has the motivation required to start a new party. He's just a celeb on social media giving his opinion.

exactly.

Once he sits down and has a proper discussion what is needed to set up a political party and how tough it is he will abandon such an idea , and tbh doubt he is even seriously considering it now.

I'd say Pat Spillane would batter him in a fight.

Forget the politics. Just get some promoter to get that match-up sorted.

They say he's the best at tapping alright

Pretty sure most decent Irish people don't view him as a decent Irish person...

Plenty of those posters were posting the same crap during the last general election is the thing. The closest thing to a substantial far right protest amounts to a riot or a small crowd harassing politicians. If anything, I'd say the events of the past few days have resulted in people wanting "law and order" directed at those specific groups.

And most Irish people will not vote for a party with a thug and alleged rapist as the leader. We're still a million miles away from US politics which tends to be more accepting of such leadership.

Its very easy to throw out slick phrases that grab the headlines but proper suggestions require in-depth planning.

I agree that there isn't enough effort made to explain to people why things are right or wrong. But simplistic catchphrases don't help either and people who fall for them need to cop on.

Anger and hopelessness does not equate to mass stupidity though.

The vast majority of people in this country correctly consider him nothing more than a scumbag.

Anyone looking to him for 'hope' are probably beyond hope.