Back on home soil, McGregor was named Sportsperson of the Year at the RTÉ Sport Awards. Sinéad O’Carroll, an Irish journalist and editor who covered the recent trial, says this was seen as a “remarkable feat” as it happened in the same year as the Olympics and Ireland’s Euro 2016 victory over Italy.

Conor McGregor’s losses could be in the tens of millions of euro as a ‘very damaging’ boycott from retailers continues to spread. A flurry of businesses previously associated with the Dublin MMA fighter have distanced themselves after a jury found him civilly liable of sexually assaulting Nikita Hand.

It is time for boxing to end its relationship with disgraced MMA fighter Conor McGregor, recently ruled to have assaulted Nikita Hand, once and for all