MMA fighter Conor McGregor speaks out after blaze tears through his £2million Dublin pub
The 37-year-old MMA star bought The Black Forge Inn for around £2million and the latest fire is not the first time it has been seen fully ablaze in the years he has owned it.
In 2022, thugs attacked the pub with petrol bombs just hours after the former UFC world champion was there.
And on Friday morning footage emerged of the building on fire again, with bright flames and thick plumes of smoke seen billowing out of the entrance.
Several firefighters descended on the pub on Drimnagh Road in Crumlin, a southern suburb of the Irish capital, as they battled to put the fire out just after 3am. Garda officers were also called to the scene.
Now, McGregor has taken to social media to thank the fire service for their 'incredible' and 'swift' response time as he shared a picture of the pub staff holding a cake outside the premises today.
He wrote on X: 'Happy fourth birthday to the best pub in the world. I wish to extend my sincere thank you, respect, and appreciation to our Dublin Fire Brigade, who were so incredibly impressive and swift in their response time!
'Record breaking Dublin Fire Brigade! Thank you! I also wish to thank my internal team, who sprung so quickly into action to defend, mend, and repair our world and way of living, that even I jumped! Bravo all round!'
McGregor concluded the post by writing 'Up the Forge, Vote McGregor' in what is seemingly a nod to his audacious bid to become the President of Ireland, which he first announced in March.
A Garda spokesman told MailOnline after the blaze yesterday: 'Gardaí attended the scene of an incident of criminal damage at a licenced premises on the Drimnagh Road, Crumlin that occurred at approximately 3:00am on Friday, 25th July 2025.
'The fire was extinguished by Dublin Fire Brigade. No injuries have been reported. The scene is currently preserved and a technical examination will be conducted in due course. Investigations are ongoing.'
Dublin Fire Brigade said it was called at 3.08am, where firefighters found a 'small fire at the front of the building'. 'Using a high pressure hose reel, one fire engine dealt with the incident and no injuries were reported,' a spokesman added.
'The scene was handed over to Gardai.'
MailOnline contacted The Black Forge Inn and McGregor's representatives for comment.
McGregor is often seen hosting celebrities at his Dublin boozer. American rapper 50 Cent celebrated his 50th birthday there ahead of his performance at Longitude Festival earlier this month.
The blaze also follows a tumultuous period for McGregor who has been embroiled in another scandal amid claims he has cheated on fiancée Dee Devlin.
Firefighters were seen battling to put out the blaze at McGregor's pub in Dublin yesterday
McGregor found himself in controversy this month when he was photographed kissing a mystery brunette woman on a beach in Fort Lauderdale.
With his partner Dee - whom he has been engaged to since 2020 - nowhere in sight, questions were raised about their relationship.
Rapper Azealia Banks then added to the furore as she took to X - formerly known as Twitter - to accuse McGregor of sexual harassment.
Last week, Ms Banks, 34, shared nude photos which purported to show McGregor, which she claimed he sent to her unprompted.
Amid the storm, McGregor and Devlin have firmly brushed off the criticism by continuing to show their affections for one another, and put on a very cosy display in one outing.
The couple have been enjoying time in Sardinia together to celebrate McGregor's 37th birthday - which was on July 14.
But it is the latest embarrassment to hit the sportsman's relationship with his partner Dee, who was ever-present by his side throughout his sexual assault court case last year.
In 2024, Conor lost a civil case as jurors at the High Court in Dublin found him liable of raping Nikita Hand, 35, in a Dublin hotel on December 9, 2018, with the judge awarding Hand €250,000 in damages.
Azealia Banks set the internet ablaze after sharing alleged nude photos of Conor that she claims the disgraced star sent unprompted (pictured in 2022)
But despite the verdict, Dee emphatically made it clear that she intended to back McGregor - attacking Nikita in a series of posts on Instagram at the time.
In the posts, she wrote: 'Conor and I dealt with these issues privately many years ago, as should be done in a relationship and we have come out stronger than ever.
'We have four beautiful children now whose smiling faces and happy hearts are a testament to who he is and who we are!'
The pair have been together for 15 years and got engaged in August 2020 after Conor proposed while they were celebrating his birthday.
The couple met as teenagers at a nightclub in 2008 and Dee has been a key player in the MMA star's story, supporting him when he was jobless and focused on making it as a professional fighter.
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