The former UFC champion used his social media platform to take aim at President Catherine Connolly and Tánaiste Simon Harris
10:30, 18 Mar 2026Updated 10:46, 18 Mar 2026
Conor McGregor pictured at the White House in March 2025
Conor McGregor launched into a vicious tirade on social media last night, slamming President Catherine Connolly as a ‘Godless woman’ before turning his attention to Tánaiste Simon Harris, who he described as a ‘cancer‘.
In a rambling post, McGregor began by lamenting St Patrick’s Day as a sad day for Ireland, claiming that military barracks on this island are being used to house migrants.
“A somber day for real Ireland,” begins McGregor’s X post. “As our military barracks are used to house economic migrants, with a promise of fast tracked citizenship if they enlist in our army. “Money, board, passport, weapons. What could go wrong!?”
McGregor next takes aim at President Catherine Connolly, making claims that the President ‘disrespected’ the religion of Irish people, before claiming that she lied about an incident involving Enoch Burke’s brother Elijah.
Catherine Connolly
That incident occurred back in October while President Connolly was campaigning to be the next Uachtarán. During an event, Elijah Bourke was removed by Gardaí for disrupting proceedings, with the event restarting 20 minutes after the disruption.
McGregor added: “As our Godless president disrespects our religion again and lies on the story of St. Patrick to suit her twisted globalist agenda, just as she lied on the story of Enoch Burke’s brother politely asking her a question. Would you go under oath on that Catherine I’d say you would easy as a godless person. The video is there for all to see however our corrupted judiciary would probably wave you through.”
In her St Patrick’s Day message, President Connolly used the plight of St Patrick – an immigrant who was trafficked to Ireland – as a reminder for people to be compassionate to migrants in the world today.
“The story of Patrick’s life serves as a reminder of the resilience and courage of migrants, the invaluable contributions that they have made, and continue to make, to the countries they now call home, sometimes even in the face of great adversity,” reads part of the President’s message.
McGregor, who briefly ran for president last year on a right wing anti-immigration platform, used the President’s comments as an excuse to slam Ireland’s immigration policy, using the horrendous murder of Ashling Murphy by Jozef Puška in 2022 as evidence to support his claim Ireland has an immigration problem.
McGregor pictured with Trump in the Oval Office(Image: whitehouse/Instagram)
“And as you ask us to do even more for migrants on the anniversary of the murder of Ashling Murphy at the hands of a Roma gypsy and his family who were in Ireland ten years in a large home while never once holding a job,” he continued.
“Asking them to do something about migration Don, is just not going to cut it, as they won’t,” wrote McGregor in a seeming reference to US President Donald Trump, who met with Taoiseach Micheál Martin on St Patrick’s Day.
Concluding his rant, McGregor wrote “Simon Harris you are a cancer to Ireland. Martin, a worm.”
Taoiseach Martin has been strongly critical of McGregor in the past, while the Tánaiste earlier this week had described McGregor as the ‘worst’ of Irish society.