Court ruling is not enough for Conor McGregor mob - they want utter ruination
Cancel culture crew piling on to destroy the UFC fighter are more about spite than justice
Clear the shelves of his whiskey! Unfollow him on social media. Scrub his image from a mural, while filming it for TikTok. Boycott his restaurant.
Let's get The Black Forge in Crumlin shut down - and who cares if all the local staff lose their jobs. It’s owned by Conor McGregor, and you’re on the side of the righteous.
I’d say if McGregor had one good piece of news this week, it was how the National Wax Museum has removed his brutal waxwork. It was up there with their effort on Sinead O’Connor.
If they really wanted to punish him, they should have left it there. There is no doubt that the court finding against McGregor in the landmark Nikita Hand case is extremely serious.
Ms Hand - who accused the MMA fighter of raping her in a Dublin hotel in December 2018 - won her claim against him for damages last week in the High Court civil case. The jury found McGregor liable for assault and awarded her €250,000 in damages.
She took the civil case after the DPP said it could not press criminal charges against McGregor due to insufficient evidence. Juries in criminal cases must reach a high-bar verdict of “beyond reasonable doubt” whereas the standard of proof in civil cases is the far lesser “balance of probabilities”.
So, in the absence of a DPP charge, Ms Hand went down that route instead. The welcomed outcome of the case should give weight to the claim Ireland has a flexible and robust legal system.
It shouldn’t set a precedent of such sensitive cases routinely ending up in the civil, as the Criminal court is ideally where they should be. But Nikita Hand herself was pleased with the decision. She announced afterwards: “Justice has been served” and said she felt vindicated. Her perseverance paid off. It was a good day for her.
If the public is truly respectful of the court decision, and hail it as a victory for victims in general, well - that should be enough. So why is this not sufficient for the pitchfork mob element, who seem to be more driven by spiteful glee than a sincere sense of justice?
In the name of humanity, they’re not satisfied with anything other than utter ruination. I find it weird and medieval. Of course, businesses are perfectly entitled to pull McGregor's Proper 12 whiskey from sale, but I’m amazed it was there in the first place.
Why didn’t they do it ages ago, say when McGregor was convicted of assault in 2019 when he punched a man in the face for refusing his whiskey in a bar?
And what purpose is to be served by campaigning to boycott his Black Forge Inn? The only upshot is a business in working-class Dublin will close down and numerous local employees will lose their jobs.
I’m not here to stand up for McGregor, who is obviously well capable of looking after himself and is rolling in so much dough he’s invincible to financial hits. He doesn’t do himself any favours by such stunts as throwing dollies through bus windows of rivals.
At the time of that incident - 2018, also - I wrote a column calling him an “out of control hooligan” who “needs to save himself, before something really terrible happens.” Now it has.
The courts used proportion to deal with McGregor and he’s paid the price in the eyes of the law. But cases involving rape or sexual assault are not some blood sport reality show for your entertainment.
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