The Irish MMA fighter learned of the news before a live television interview in Dublin for a US audience.

Plenty has changed even since the Dubliner was most recently in the desert, a chastening night 15 months back when he was sent scurrying across the sands by Khabib Nurmagomedov, writes Joe Callaghan.

IT will come as news to some that Conor McGregor, the well-known whiskey impresario and threat to public order, is fighting this weekend.

Conor McGregor will return to the octagon on January 18 at UFC 246.

The court heard the MMA fighter has already paid compensation to the man, but the amount wasn't disclosed this afternoon.

Lawyers for Conor McGregor have hit back at a Dutch company trying to block the mixed martial arts star registering his own name as a trademark across the EU.

Conor McGregor has announced today he would be making his eagerly anticipated return to the octagon on January 18 in Las Vegas.

A judge has given Conor McGregor three weeks to decide how he will plead to a charge of attacking a customer in a Dublin pub.

Losses continued to mount at the main Irish firm of mixed martial arts superstar, Conor McGregor, last year, according to new figures.

Conor McGregor has said seeing footage of him appearing to hit out at a man in a Dublin pub was like a "dagger" in his heart.

Conor McGregor is expected to be charged with assault after allegedly punching a man in a Dublin pub.

The list sees 35 NBA players, 19 from the NFL and 15 from Major League Baseball

It’s been a busy month for Irish sports stars.

Former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor has announced his retirement from the sport. This is not an occasion for regret or sadness, rather it is one

The UFC featherweight and lightweight champion has called time on his career at the age of 30.

"I was there at the invitation of the organisers representing the country, Conor McGregor was there I believe at the invitation of the plumbers union," said Mr Varadkar.

Conor McGregor has expanded his highly sought-after Irish whiskey by adding distribution in the UK.

MMA is ‘barbaric’ and for others it is a multi-skilled, supremely athletic sport that is no more violent, and just as well self-regulated, as boxing.

Times, technology and media are changing. For the first time since the advent of the internet, brands' ad spending on digital media is expected to overtake traditional media in 2019, writes Joyce Fegan

Conor McGregor has been banned from competition for six months and fined $50,000 for a post-fight brawl at UFC 229.

A little-known Dutch firm is seeking to hinder mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor’s plans to expand his money-making brand across Europe.

On Instagram, the Notorious posted a picture of himself leaving a hospital with his two babies.

Conor McGregor has had his prosecution for driving without a licence or insurance struck out during a hearing that lasted less than 10 seconds today.

MMA star Conor McGregor’s donation of €10,000 has been credited with ‘changing our lives,’ by a woman raising funds for her 5-year-old son.

A whiskey product owned by Conor McGregor has sold out in just one month, with plans in place to restock in time for Christmas.

It's little Mason's swagger that makes this outfit so great.

A Limerick student has blagged his way into a Conor McGregor fight for a second time.

At school, there was nothing quite like fight day, writes Tommy Martin.

The world is watching.

Conor McGregor has said he is ready to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov again despite violent scenes in Las Vegas after the Russian had defeated him.

Conor McGregor’s return to the UFC ended in misery and then shame as chaos enveloped the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

For six straight days now, Khabib Nurmagomedov has strode up and down the Strip like the only man in Las Vegas with a working watch.

Public workouts are one of many peculiarities of a UFC fight week. Perhaps the most peculiar ritual.

You can throw Las Vegas in with time and tide. The place waits for no man either.

Former UFC lightweight champion Anthony Pettis believes Conor McGregor is the rightful ruler of the 155lb division ahead of the Irishman's showdown with Khabib Nurmagomedov this weekend.

Tony Ferguson was stripped of his interim champion status after tearing his lateral collateral ligament.

Conor McGregor admits he "fell out of love" with mixed martial arts during his two-year hiatus from the UFC.

We are just a little over one week away from the biggest fight in UFC history.

Mixed martial arts superstar, Conor McGregor’s main Irish firm last year plunged into the red.

Dublin homelessness charity, Inner City Helping Homeless, has revealed that the winning bid for tickets to Conor McGregor's UFC fight was a fake.

Conor McGregor has agreed a new six-fight deal with the UFC.

Conor McGregor has launched his Irish whiskey, Proper No. Twelve.

Mixed martial arts superstar Conor McGregor has withdrawn his application to register his ‘Notorious’ moniker as a trademark for selling whiskey and other alcoholic drinks across Europe.

Conor McGregor is being sued by fellow UFC fighter Michael Chiesa over McGregor's attack on a bus last April, according to reports in the US.