{"id":1081317,"date":"2021-12-03T16:44:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081317"},"modified":"2021-12-03T16:44:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:44:26","slug":"conor-mcgregor-it-is-time-to-talk-ireland-leaving-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conor-mcgregor-it-is-time-to-talk-ireland-leaving-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor: &#039;It Is Time to Talk Ireland Leaving the European Union&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fconor-mcgregor-it-is-time-to-talk-ireland-leaving-the-european-union%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1081317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-839210162-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former two-weight mixed martial arts world champion and all-around sporting superstar Conor McGregor may have just become Ireland\u2019s biggest advocate for \u2018Irexit\u2019 \u2014 an Irish exit from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>McGregor, who has conquered top-tier opponents at featherweight, lightweight, and welterweight in the Dana White-led Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and became the first fighter in promotional history to claim two belts simultaneously in 2016, declared that it was \u201ctime to talk about Ireland leaving the European Union\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1466844984804528131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1466844984804528131%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">social media post<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Whether or not he would come down in favour of an Irish exit after having that discussion was left an open question, although he strongly indicated that he would likely be in favour of leaving in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1466845759937126403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1466845759937126403%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">follow-up post<\/a> lamenting the fact that \u201cWe do not have leaders in Ireland, we have messengers. Subordinates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given the context, it is likely that this was a reference to all the areas where Ireland and other EU member-states must surrender their sovereignty to the bloc at large \u2014 driven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/germany-s-intentions-for-the-eu-are-as-clear-now-as-they-were-in-1914-p5hst3tt3\">largely by Franco-German interests<\/a> \u2014 with Brussels exercising collective control over members\u2019 national fishing stocks, international trade deals, and much of their migration rules and regulatory regime, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, as a member of the Eurozone, with its euro single currency managed by the Frankfurt-based Europea Central Bank (ECB), the Republic of Ireland is even less sovereign as an EU member than the United Kingdom \u2014 which never gave up the pound \u2014 once was, having only a limited say over its own fiscal and monetary policy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The more contemporary issue of vaccine policy seems to have been the trigger for McGregor\u2019s intervention, however, with the Irishman slamming his country\u2019s leaders as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1466844422994341894\">\u201cEU lackeys\u201d<\/a> after branding \u201ctalk of mandating\u201d vaccines \u201claughable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tracks of this gravy train will soon be realigned and sent to its rightful destination of an Irish red brick wall,\u201d he vowed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8256880733945\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It is time to talk Ireland leaving the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1466844984804528131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s reduced room for manoeuvre as an EU member-state was most humiliatingly underscored with the release of the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecb.europa.eu\/press\/html\/irish-letters.en.html\">Trichet letters<\/a>&nbsp;in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>These showed how the then-President of the European Central Bank, France\u2019s Jean-Claude Trichet, essentially strong-armed the Irish government into making a \u201crequest\u201d for a bailout \u2014 with various punishing austerity measures attached and overseen by the ECB, European Commission, and International Monetary Fund (IMF) \u2014 in 2010, in large part by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/ireland\/irish-news\/trichet-letter-revealed-ecb-threatened-to-stop-emergency-funding-unless-ireland-took-bailout-1.1989869\">threatening to cut off emergency funding<\/a> if Dublin did not comply.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIreland was humiliated, bullied, picked on first and treated very badly,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/2014\/1106\/657234-ecb-letter\/\">lamented<\/a>&nbsp;Shane Ross, an independent member of the Irish parliament, after the correspondence was revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Irexit\u2019 is a relatively small movement at present \u2014 as the Brexit movement once was \u2014 but gained a shot in the arm when Hermann Kelly, a former director of communications for the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) group in the European Parliament which included then-UKIP leader Nigel Farage and his compatriots, helped to establish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2018\/09\/04\/irexit-party-ireland-leave-eu\/\">the Irish Freedom Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have swapped one empire (British) for the EU empire,\u201d Kelly said around the time of the party\u2019s launch in 2018, adding:&nbsp;\u201cIreland needs to be a democratic and sovereign country. EU membership is incompatible with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Conor McGregor now potentially throwing his weight behind the pro-sovereignty movement, it may begin to gain some major traction among the Irish public \u2014 or at least a more prominent place in the national discourse.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.8292682926829\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We do not have leaders in Ireland, we have messengers. Subordinates.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1466845759937126403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former two-weight mixed martial arts world champion and all-around sporting superstar Conor McGregor may have just become Ireland\u2019s biggest advocate for \u2018Irexit\u2019 \u2014 an Irish exit from the European Union. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}