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McGregor brawl in Dublin Pub (allegedly).

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    #272
    Jerichoholic
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    Even if true, that's his own personal business.


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    #273
    RocketRaccoon
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    RasTa wrote: »
    Looks like he is having fun tbh.

    Video of him leaving he just retweeted

    https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/936233874815897600

    This is exactly it. He's a young lad with a ridiculous amount of money who is enjoying himself. If the media hadn't shown up to that courthouse this morning, he wouldn't have been as brash. It's all a show for him and these puppets are doing exactly what he wants.


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    #274
    Tazium
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    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    Even if true, that's his own personal business.

    Until it’s judged and decided upon by social media and Internet forums.


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    #275
    Jerichoholic
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    All the Saints who have never done a thing wrong in their lives you mean?


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    #276
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Tazium wrote: »
    Screengrabs of conversations and a few images of him in a FaceTime chat with someone else. Propaganda probably.
    "Propaganda"? :D:D

    Is McGregor eyeing up the Taoiseach's chair? :D:D


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    #277
    pilly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭pilly


    Chrongen wrote: »
    Why is it begrudgery? The speed with which people in Ireland trot out that term tells more about them than the so-called begrudgers. Why, if you don't care for someone, or just plain despise them in Ireland, then you are a begrudger?

    In the US, millions of people loathe Donald Trump. Donald Trump has a few quid in the bank. Are THEY all begrudgers? Is the culture of begrudgery in the US alive and well?

    Okay, lets just say it's not begrudgery then. What is it? Why feel the need to post vile disgusting things about someone you've never met just because you despise them.

    I can't stand Trump either but I don't go off on one on the internet about him and I'll tell you why. Because he doesn't have ANY effect on my life. Full stop.

    Same as Conor McGregor doesn't. I don't like him either but I admire what he's done with very little backing.


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    #278
    Birneybau
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    SuperSean11 wrote: »
    Who’s the priest on the right?

    Paul Reynolds, RTE. Another mouthpiece for the Gardai.


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    #279
    seamus
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    https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2017/1130/923969-conor-mcgregor-court/

    McGregor rambling incoherently in court today, his solicitor had to jump in and talk on his behalf;
    When McGregor took the stand this afternoon he was asked by the judge what speed he was travelling, and he replied: "I can’t remember, to be honest."

    The judge asked him: "Did you not hear the guard?"

    He said: "What I did hear was that I had tried my best to pay it. I don’t know, it didn’t pay."

    The judge said that is not it, and when she asked him what happened, he said: "I don’t know."

    His solicitor intervened to say McGregor was pleading guilty.

    The guy is definitely falling to pieces. Genuinely wouldn't be surprised to hear of his death in the next 12 months. Though either way it seems to be a sad slide for someone who worked so hard for a massive opportunity to turn his life around.


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    #280
    pilly
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    seamus wrote: »
    https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2017/1130/923969-conor-mcgregor-court/

    McGregor rambling incoherently in court today, his solicitor had to jump in and talk on his behalf;



    The guy is definitely falling to pieces. Genuinely wouldn't be surprised to hear of his death in the next 12 months. Though either way it seems to be a sad slide for someone who worked so hard for a massive opportunity to turn his life around.

    How is that rambling incoherently?


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    #281
    Annasopra
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    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/conor-mcgregor-told-he-can-pay-400-speeding-fine-in-instalments-1.3310858?mode=amp

    158km driving? And people still defend him?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #282
    seamus
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    pilly wrote: »
    How is that rambling incoherently?

    The judge asked him: "Did you not hear the guard?"

    He said: "What I did hear was that I had tried my best to pay it. I don’t know, it didn’t pay."

    That's just nonsense. He's barely even on this planet.


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    #283
    Tazium
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    Jerichoholic wrote: »
    All the Saints who have never done a thing wrong in their lives you mean?

    :) Everyone can claim entitlement to privacy, reality disagrees.

    Hope it all gets cleared up soon and hope that all the rumors are untrue. Can't be a comfortable experience to have so much negativity shoved in his face. I don't know him but he's achieved great things. So did other fighters at a young age, Mike Tyson is my example. Poorly advised, poorly mentored and lost the run of himself in his professional career. Not ignoring what he did in his private life for which he spent years in prison, but ultimately that's none of my business.

    /See? sometimes people do agree on the internet.


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    #284
    RocketRaccoon
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    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/conor-mcgregor-told-he-can-pay-400-speeding-fine-in-instalments-1.3310858?mode=amp

    158km driving? And people still defend him?

    And he got the usual fine the same as you or I would receive. Should he be treated differently?

    I hope, just for the laugh that he pays the fine in installments like the judge said he could.


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    #285
    RocketRaccoon
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    seamus wrote: »
    The judge asked him: "Did you not hear the guard?"

    He said: "What I did hear was that I had tried my best to pay it. I don’t know, it didn’t pay."

    That's just nonsense. He's barely even on this planet.

    It was poorly worded in the rte article. Read the one linked after that, the Irish times one.


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    #286
    King George VI
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    Looks like he's hiding his face while holding the camera that took the photo.

    https://twitter.com/MirrorFighting/status/936219048253247489


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    #287
    seachto7
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    seamus wrote: »
    https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2017/1130/923969-conor-mcgregor-court/

    McGregor rambling incoherently in court today, his solicitor had to jump in and talk on his behalf;



    The guy is definitely falling to pieces.

    Oh please. He's on the razz these days, and doesn't have to get up for work. Same as most students are. :rolleyes:


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    #288
    MysticMonk
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    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Stupid gullible me thought Dee was his true love :o


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    When is Conor's Croke Park fight happening, will need very tight security now


    In case some no-mark drunk from crumlin wants to harm him in some way?


    See above...


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    #289
    seamus
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    RocketRaccoon wrote: »
    And he got the usual fine the same as you or I would receive. Should he be treated differently?
    It's off-topic, but IMO monetary sanctions should be proportionate to earnings. Otherwise it's not the "same" punishment for everyone.

    That is, let's say €400 is the typical fine for someone who has average earnings of €40k

    For someone who earns €20k, that's a much harsher fine; more than a week's wages.

    For someone who earned €140m, it's a drop in the ocean. A penny sweet.

    If fines were to be fair, they should be proportionate. €1.4m in the case of McGregor.

    Where's the disincentive for McGregor to slow down when he knows it'll cost him next to nothing?


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    #290
    MysticMonk
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    seamus wrote: »
    It's off-topic, but IMO monetary sanctions should be proportionate to earnings. Otherwise it's not the "same" punishment for everyone.

    That is, let's say €400 is the typical fine for someone who has average earnings of €40k

    For someone who earns €20k, that's a much harsher fine; more than a week's wages.

    For someone who earned €140m, it's a drop in the ocean. A penny sweet.

    If fines were to be fair, they should be proportionate. €1.4m in the case of McGregor.

    Where's the disincentive for McGregor to slow down when he knows it'll cost him next to nothing?

    That would mean completely rewriting huge swathes of legislation and turning sentencing guidelines on thier heads.


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    #291
    LollipopJimmy
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    seamus wrote: »

    Where's the disincentive for McGregor to slow down when he knows it'll cost him next to nothing?

    Penalty points are supposed to be the leveler though, he will be given 5 points on his licence


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    #292
    pilly
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    seamus wrote: »
    It's off-topic, but IMO monetary sanctions should be proportionate to earnings. Otherwise it's not the "same" punishment for everyone.

    That is, let's say €400 is the typical fine for someone who has average earnings of €40k

    For someone who earns €20k, that's a much harsher fine; more than a week's wages.

    For someone who earned €140m, it's a drop in the ocean. A penny sweet.

    If fines were to be fair, they should be proportionate. €1.4m in the case of McGregor.

    Where's the disincentive for McGregor to slow down when he knows it'll cost him next to nothing?

    Losing his licence?


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    #293
    RasTa
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    seamus wrote: »
    It's off-topic, but IMO monetary sanctions should be proportionate to earnings. Otherwise it's not the "same" punishment for everyone.

    That is, let's say €400 is the typical fine for someone who has average earnings of €40k

    For someone who earns €20k, that's a much harsher fine; more than a week's wages.

    For someone who earned €140m, it's a drop in the ocean. A penny sweet.

    If fines were to be fair, they should be proportionate. €1.4m in the case of McGregor.

    Where's the disincentive for McGregor to slow down when he knows it'll cost him next to nothing?

    In a court of law? You mad?


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    #294
    ChikiChiki
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    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/conor-mcgregor-told-he-can-pay-400-speeding-fine-in-instalments-1.3310858?mode=amp

    158km driving? And people still defend him?

    Lol. I find this funny. Out if all the things he has said and done driving at 158km in a high powered car is picked out as indefensible. C'mon most of us would be tipping over the limit every now and again especially on a good road like the Naas dual carraigeway if we had such a motor.


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    #295
    Ush1
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    seamus wrote: »
    https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2017/1130/923969-conor-mcgregor-court/

    McGregor rambling incoherently in court today, his solicitor had to jump in and talk on his behalf;



    The guy is definitely falling to pieces. Genuinely wouldn't be surprised to hear of his death in the next 12 months. Though either way it seems to be a sad slide for someone who worked so hard for a massive opportunity to turn his life around.

    That escalated quickly.


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    #296
    pilly
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    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/district-court/conor-mcgregor-told-he-can-pay-400-speeding-fine-in-instalments-1.3310858?mode=amp

    158km driving? And people still defend him?

    I'd love to meet someone who hasn't driven at 158kmph??


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    #297
    seachto7
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    pilly wrote: »
    I'd love to meet someone who hasn't driven at 158kmph??

    Me. It's reckless and stupid. I'm not that thick or in that much of a rush to get there.


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    #298
    MysticMonk
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    seachto7 wrote: »
    Me. It's reckless and stupid. I'm not that thick or in that much of a rush to get there.


    Or maybe you're too mean to buy a car that will travel that fast :P


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    #299
    inforfun
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    Where is the garda traffic with a road side drugs test when you need them.....


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    #300
    _Dara_
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    pilly wrote: »
    I'd love to meet someone who hasn't driven at 158kmph??

    Seriously?

    Anyway, McGregor seems to not be handling fame and huge wealth well. It’s a shame.


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    #301
    pilly
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    seachto7 wrote: »
    Me. It's reckless and stupid. I'm not that thick or in that much of a rush to get there.

    I haven't met you. Thank god.


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