{"id":13779,"date":"2023-12-05T09:46:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T09:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=13779"},"modified":"2023-12-05T11:02:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T11:02:11","slug":"conor-mcgregor-expresses-intent-to-run-for-president-of-ireland-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/conor-mcgregor-expresses-intent-to-run-for-president-of-ireland-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor Expresses Intent To Run For President Of Ireland In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/conor-mcgregor.jpg\" alt=\"Conor McGregor\" title=\"Conor McGregor Expresses Intent To Run For President Of Ireland In 2025\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13780\" \/><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>McGregor put out a poll on X as to who gets the vote for President of Ireland <\/li>\n<li>The Irish MMA star has been very critical of the ruling government in the last few weeks  <\/li>\n<li>McGregor is expected to return to the Octagon in the summer of 2024 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conor McGregor<\/strong> is trending on Twitter after he clearly expressed his intention to run for the President of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/ireland\">Ireland<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The elections are supposed to take place in March 2025 and McGregor is likely to make a run for President.<\/p>\n<h2>X Poll Results Show McGregor Huge Favorite <\/h2>\n<p>McGregor published a string of posts in late November attacking the ruling Irish government for not doing enough to protect the people of Ireland. Those posts were made after there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/nov\/23\/dublin-knife-attack-children-stabbing-ireland-parnell-square\">unrest in Dublin over the stabbing of a child<\/a>. The government would go on to launch an investigation into McGregor over potential hate tweets.<\/p>\n<p>McGregor has now made his intentions clear that his attack on the government was a lead up to him pitching in to be a potential candidate for President in 2025. McGregor published a poll on X asking who gets the vote for President in Ireland and put in 3 other candidates and himself. All the other candidates had single digit vote numbers while McGregor topped the list with a high 80+ percent.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Who gets your vote for President as it stands today?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1731745629842366574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Most of those votes would have come in from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/sports-betting\/mixed-martial-arts\/ufc\">UFC<\/a> fans and social media followers, so it is not an accurate poll of what the Irish people feel about McGregor and his bid to run for President.<\/p>\n<p>In a post, McGregor wrote  <\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Potential competition if I run. Gerry, 78. Bertie. 75. Enda, 74. Each with unbreakable ties to their individual parties politics. Regardless of what the public outside of their parties feel. These parties govern themselves vs govern the people. Or me, 35. Young, active,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HiLn3jAQ2e\">pic.twitter.com\/HiLn3jAQ2e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1731679486372970656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<h2>McGregor Expected To Make UFC Return In Summer <\/h2>\n<p>McGregor hasn\u2019t fought in the UFC for over 2 years now and is expected to make his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/conor-mcgregor-tells-fans-he-will-be-part-of-ufc-300\/\">return to the Octagon in the summer rather than Spring of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: McGregor put out a poll on X as to who gets the vote for President of Ireland The Irish MMA star has been very critical of the ruling government in the last few weeks McGregor is expected to return to the Octagon in the summer of 2024 Conor McGregor is trending on Twitter after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-uk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>McGregor Expresses Intent To Run For President Of Ireland In 2025<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Conor McGregor is trending on Twitter after he clearly expressed his intention to run for the President of Ireland.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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