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Conor McGregor Megathread *Mod Warning in OP Updated 20th April*

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,365 ✭✭✭paul71


    I think that poster is confusing Ming Flanaghan with Mick Wallace. It is odd that he has no time for someone but the reason for that is attributed to an act committed by a completely different person.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42,418 ✭✭✭✭Boggles


    Strange they stocked them in the first place.

    It's not like anyone is surprised he is a rapist. He has a history of being an absolute violent scumbag.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,265 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Indeed. They’re deserting him for the same reason they joined up with him in the first place - money.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,424 ✭✭✭nc6000


    Why was McGregor offering her money to drop the case if he didn't do anything wrong? I guess he's made a number of other cases disappear with money so must have thought this would be the same.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭juno10353


    It does effect her entitlements should they split



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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,846 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Not defending CMcG but it can sometimes be cheaper to pay off a claimant rather than the expenses of a court case (even if you win the court case)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,424 ✭✭✭nc6000


    Yeah, I get that is sometimes easier and preferable to pay people off to make stuff go away. He seems to be doing this quite regularly going by the list of "controversies" on his Wikipedia page.

    They can't all be making stuff up.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭eightieschewbaccy


    I think the history of intimidation is the bigger red flag imho. Once you could attribute as an angry fan but it seems to happen a lot.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,474 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    If he is paying people to go away then surely its very possible that they are making stuff up?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,539 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    For any accuser to make stuff up, there would have to be at least some form of corroborating evidence they could use to demonstrate that they met and spent some time with him, to lend some credibility to their accusation beyond just their own testimony, in order for it to get to court (whether civil or criminal).

    So at the very least, women who have made accusations about McGregor would have had to have likely partied and/or slept with him for it to be worth McGregor paying them to go away. Otherwise it'd actually be in his own best interest to let them make the accusation, fully disprove it in court and make it look like he's being unfairly targeted/harrassed (which could actually then benefit him if there was a case he was guilty for as he could point to repeated false claims being made against him in the past, and it could deter others from bringing false accusations against him).

    But the issue is "surely its very possible that they are making stuff up". Possible, yes. Very possible? I would say the "very possible" thing would be that a coked-up f*ckhead like McGregor crosses boundaries with women in much the same way that he crosses boundaries in many aspects of his life and career. It's possible women may lie about him assaulting them. It's very possible McGregor actually has.



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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,846 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    As it wasn't tested in a court of law, one can only guess.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭dockysher


    “My sons will be warned women like you exist in the world.”

    Still can't believe she tweeted that, she really is in very deep and fully delusional and stupid.

    Even if mcgregor did not rape her, which I fully believe he did cause he is a violent scumbag which there has be rumours going around for 10 years now about him with other woman and being aggressive with them.

    But the worst thing is he was boasting in court about having sex 5 times with two different women unprotected athletic and vigorously as he put it and getting a blow-job in a taxi. This has gone all around the world to millions of people. She was at home 8 months pregnant while this was happening.

    Mental stuff, that she can come out and stand up from him and blame the women. They should not be thrown themselves at her man, whats he suspouse to do. 😂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,436 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    spot on. At best she had to sit through details of her long-term partner’s sleazy infidelity, and at worst his raping the victim. Her posts really were out of order.

    Btw, relating to this case. McGregor did not say he had sex 5 times with two different women. Lawrence claimed this. 3 times with Ms. Kealy and two times with Ms. Hand



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 104 ✭✭Quango Unchained


    Below is the "closeout" memo from an incident in Miami involving McGregor.

    It seems like the CCTV and witnesses contradicted the accuser's narrative somewhat.

    Was the accuser abused in the cubicle but embellished (or misremembered) the account of what happened beforehand? Certainly possible.

    It is possible that these women "consent", are treated like meat by McGregor, discarded and then have huge regrets immediately afterwards - especially if they have husbands/boyfriends/children and know that the story is going to be the talk of the town because these events are so "undiscrete" and he is so ultra-famous. The rape allegations may not initially be about money - they may be about self-preservation. They stand to lose so much.

    His treatment of women is shocking. Just look at what he's put his wife through. He doesn't treat men all too well either.

    I think the jury's decision with awarding the "low" amount of damages reflects the messiness of this case. It certainly isn't black and white and I would not like to have adjudicated on this.

    McGregor's been on a path to self-destruction one way or another. Not sure if he's got the wherewithal to come off that path.

    https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/10/19/closeout-memo-details-why-state-dropped-charges-against-conor-mcgregor-after-rape-accusations-at-kaseya-center/

    MIAMI – Local 10 News has obtained a copy of the closeout memo involving a sexual battery case against Conor McGregor that shows prosecutors in Miami decided not to pursue charges against the former UFC champ due to numerous witness statements.

    According to the memo, a woman attending Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets on June 9 went to the City of Miami police station on June 11 and reported that McGregor, 35, had raped her in a bathroom stall at the Kaseya Center.

    Prosecutors said the woman told detectives she was a “regular” at the Courtside Club inside the arena and had been dancing with McGregor and that he seemed “really into her.”

    Police said he allegedly invited her back to the Four Seasons hotel with him and she agreed, but a few minutes later, she was led to the men’s bathroom instead by a security guard, who said that McGregor told him to bring her to him.

    According to the memo, the woman and McGregor entered a stall together and she claimed he tried to force his erect penis in her mouth as she sat on the toilet, but she told him, “No, not here,” and to wait until they got to the hotel room.

    She claimed she eventually stood up, but McGregor turned her around, “placed her against the wall and attempted to penetrate her anally,” the memo stated.

    According to the memo, she asked detectives if they thought he would “settle” or “pay her out” if she decided not to pursue charges, but the detectives told her they could not provide legal advice.

    Prosecutors said the woman then hired an attorney who contacted McGregor’s attorney and offered to settle the situation “amicably” before it hit the media.

    McGregor, however, did not settle with the victim.

    According to the memo, detectives reviewed surveillance video from the Kaseya Center which shows McGregor going into the bathroom with two women.

    They said they interviewed the bathroom attendant, who told them only McGregor and the alleged victim went into the stall together and that they were inside the stall for about 10 minutes.

    He said he never heard any sounds of distress or “sounds that would corroborate that whatever was occurring was not consensual,” the memo stated.

    He also said the victim did not seem upset when she came out of the stall, according to the memo.

    Prosecutors said the head of security for the Courtside Club also provided a statement to detectives, saying he knew the alleged victim as a regular of the Courtside Club and said that he saw a large crowd at the door to the men’s restroom so he went inside to see what was going on.

    According to the memo, the head of security said he then saw the two women inside the bathroom and asked what they were doing in there, at which time the alleged victim told him “pleasure doing business.”

    She never told him she had been raped or sexually assaulted, the memo stated.

    According to the close-out memo, due to the witnesses statements, prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against McGregor since they believe they would not be able to prove that he was guilty of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.

    McGregor has been with his fiancée Dee Devlin since 2008 and the couple has three children together.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,474 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    In order for it to go to court yes, but how many of these are getting to court I wonder?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,474 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    You can be disgusted at the actions of someone and still not believe that they raped someone though, right?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,265 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Good olde reliable Daily Mail - hopefully with these stories getting a good airing on the front pages it will take whatever stupid smile he has off his face.
    EXCLUSIVEMultiple Conor McGregor accusers have been victims of break-ins, arson and their loved ones have been stabbed in shocking violence AFTER they bravely came forward

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14126639/conor-mcgregor-rape-accusers-shocking-violence-allegations.html



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 58,436 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    if you were waiting for Irish media for stories and details you’d be waiting a long time..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,265 ✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    To date it’s been mostly social media where we’ve read about such activities and some very general stories in newspapers referencing “sports-star” and what not- once these stories go mainstream media, you’ll find the Irish publications will start to get braver with the stories they push out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,539 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Not just for it to go to court, but there has to be enough evidence for McGregor to consider paying it off.

    Put it this way, if my sister went and accused McGregor in order to go looking for a payout, it wouldn't get anywhere. She's never met him, never been near him, no possible way it could have occurred. So would McGregor & his team pay her off to stop it going any further? Not a hope.

    So women who have been paid off (theoretically speaking), there would have to be something substantial enough in their claim beyond just their own testimony, which would probably mean at the very least they could potentially prove they were with McGregor. Maybe at that stage McGregor might consider paying them off either because he's trying to keep his infidelity from his fiance, or because he did actually harm/assault them and doesn't want it to go any further or become public.

    But that just brings it back to my point of it being possible that they were looking for a payoff, but it being very possible that McGregor did actually assault them, especially given what we know of McGregor himself.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 630 ✭✭✭juno10353


    The Civil Court IS a court of law. Jury and Judge.

    It cannot hand down Criminal sentences, it hands down civil sentences, but is legal and lawful.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭DaithiMa


    Those stabbing, arson, break ins and criminal damage incidents were all complete coincidences…



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 42,846 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,406 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,406 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    No, not stocking a product is not "forcing" anyone to do anything.

    My local Dunnes doesn't stock Walkers Max Strong Jalapeno & Cheese crisps. Those things are delicious. Are they "forcing" me to not buy these crisps?

    Nope. I can just go buy them in another shop. Coola boola!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,610 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    As I've said before, cancel culture doesn't exist, because either they weren't really cancelled, or if they were they deserved it, the pricks



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,406 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Whether is exists or not, the suggestion that someone suffering negative repercussions after being found liable to raping a woman is "cancel culture" is mind-boggling stupid.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭DaithiMa


    The double champ should be allowed do what he wants without any consequences. Coke, rape, assaults, the whole lot. He's exactly the type of character brands should be queuing up to be associated with.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,610 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    the suggestion that someone suffering negative repercussions...

    That wasn't what I said though, i was asking whether the following, posted by a prominent politician and viewed a quarter of a million times, would be an example of 'cancel culture'

    Hi @Supervaluirl when are you destocking this product



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,406 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    I was talking about the original person who said he was a victim of cancel culture. Not you.He was the person who I was replying to, in the post YOU replied to thereafter.

    Apologies.



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