Conor McGregor has his eyes on the political arena.
On Thursday, Sept. 5, the former UFC two-division champion boldly declared himself as the “only logical choice” for Ireland’s president. McGregor teased his political run in a length X post, in which laid out his plans for his potential presidency. The 36-year-old father of two said he would demand “answers” from Dáil Éireann — the lower house of the Irish parliament — or take steps to “dissolve it."
“I would have all the answers the people of Ireland seek from these thieves of the working man, these disrupters of the family unit, these destructors of small businesses, and on and on and on!” he wrote. “These charlatans in their positions of power would be summoned to answer to the people of Ireland and I would have it done by day end. Or I would be left with no choice but to dissolve the Dáil entirely. Stop the train until.”
He continued: “The people of Ireland deserve the answers they seek. Point blank. This would be my power as President. I know very well. Ireland needs an active President employed wholly by the people of Ireland. It is me. I am the only logical choice. 2025 is upcoming…”
Irish president Michael D. Higgins is nearing the end of his second, seven-year term and is ineligible to run in the 2025 election.
This isn’t the first time McGregor has expressed interest in Irish politics. He hinted at a potential run in late 2023, after a Dublin stabbing left three children and an adult injured. The incident sparked anti-immigrant protests and street violence across the Irish capital.
“I do not connect crime with migration,” McGregor wrote on X last year. “I connect crime to your governments many failed policies in protecting and securing the inhabitants of Ireland. There is a real lapse in national security. We need a brand new task force founded to assess all entrants into Ireland. Our natives and our visitors will all benefit with this peace of mind. We need deportation of those here illegally or that have committed a crime here. There needs to be a brand new unit founded specifically for this task.”
McGregor has not stepped into the Octagon since 2021, when he broke his leg during a Dustin Poirier fight. He was expected to take on Michael Chandler at UFC 303 back in June, but had to scrap the match after suffering a toe injury during training.
UFC boss Dana White addressed the matter during a post-fight press conference earlier this month, saying he didn’t know when the McGregor-Poirier fight would go down.
“We talked and [McGregor] wants to fight,” White said. “We’ll figure it out. Not this year. He won’t fight this year.”
McGregor, however, pushed back on White’s comments, saying he was ready to return to the Octagon by the end of the 2024.
“Ah Dana, December is the date,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “Bring the calendar year home with a winning event! Come on now, what’s this? I am off to altitude next month to prepare. December! Tell Dana and UFC we want December! We deserve December!”