Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) superstar Conor McGregor has said members of the public should “evaporate” properties before they can be taken over “unannounced,” apparently in reference to hotels and other buildings which the Irish government is filling with migrants after giving locals short or zero advance notice.
“Do not let any Irish property be took over unnanounced,” wrote the former UFC featherweight and lightweight world champion. “Evaporate said property. It’s a war,” he continued, later reiterating “Ireland, we are at war” for good measure.
McGregor was apparently responding to news that the Irish government had begun piling the first of at least 70 migrant men into a 22-bedroom guest house in a residential area, barely a day after Integration Minister Roderic O’Gorman had claimed he would meet with locals to discuss their concerns.
The fighter made the comments after he had expressed anger over a migrant who was able to move to Ireland despite being a convicted pedophile murdering a young female teacher, but before another incident in which a migrant stabbed a woman and three toddlers outside a Dublin school.
This prompted an even more furious reaction from McGregor, who backed members of the public who rioted in response to the attack against smears they were “far right,” warning: “We are not backing down, we are only warming up.”
