Car dealer Nadia Adan slams claims she is mystery woman on beach with Conor McGregor

Sunday World

15-07-2025

The Ashford Motors car dealer rubbished the notion that she is the dark-haired woman pictured kissing the MMA star.
Social media star and Ashford Motors owner Nadia Adan has hit back at claims she is the mystery woman seen kissing Conor McGregor in a series of recently published pictures.
Over the weekend, The Sun released photos of McGregor appearing to kiss the unindentified woman on a beach in Florida.
It was reported the UFC fighter 'cozied up' with the dark-haired woman after taking a jet ski ride.
The father-of-four has been engaged to his partner Dee Devlin since 2020, with the pair having been a couple for the past 16 years.
Nadia Adan posted on her Instagram story. Photo: Instagram
In response to the pics going online, Nadia hit back at any suggestion that she is the unnamed woman seen alongside the 37-year-old.
Writing on Instagram, she said: 'For everyone messaging me, this most definitely is not me, rumours travel and people believe them.
'This could potentially destroy someone, pls be kind, thanks Nadia x.'
The second-hand car dealer then followed that up with another short video on her story, stating she had been getting 'abusive messages' over photos that she is not in.
'I woke up this morning to a plethora of calls and messages. I asked myself 'who did I piss off today?' – it definitely wasn't the EV owners.'
'Now come on, this not me in the picture. I have been getting abusing messages all day long; people telling I'm breaking up families.'
The Wicklow woman previously revealed in 2022 that when McGregor punched a punter in a pub for refusing to drink his whiskey, it cost her tens of thousands in a lucrative motor deal.
Nadia Adan (left) and Conor McGregor (right)
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The Dubliner had sold his BMW i8 to the car dealer before an American fan bid €250,000 to get their hands on a vehicle previously owned by the MMA star.
"I had it sold for stupid money and I had a big deposit – then, obviously, that incident happened in the pub and your man called me up and said 'look, I don't like what he did' or whatever, and added, 'I'm not doing the deal',' Nadia previously told the Sunday World.
'Unfortunately, Conor went and did what he did to the guy in the pub and your man reneged on the deal and I said 'ah look, it's fine'.'
McGregor was fined €1,000 in November 2019 for assaulting Desmond Keogh at the Marble Arch pub in Dublin's Drimnagh the previous April.
Nadia has become one of the best known second-hand car dealers in Ireland through her company Ashford Motors, which has more than 233,000 followers on TikTok and another 128,000 on Instagram.
'I started doing fun videos,' she previously told Evoke. 'I would be hunkered down close to a car and viewers would have to try to guess the model.
'I had a low-cut top on and it sounds ridiculous, but it worked. People just didn't know what to do with me.
"They put me in a glamour model box, and that's fine, but I wasn't that. I'm a businesswoman, I'm educated, I can talk the talk, plus I have my boobs on show.'
Nadia, who had worked previously as a stockbroker, came to Ireland as a young girl with her mother after they fled their home country of Somalia as refugees.
Her mother took on five jobs to put Nadia through college, where she got a Masters in Trinity College.
'I had always been into my cars and the guys I were working with always drove nice cars. I bought a nice motor and I ended up selling it one day on my lunch break in Tesco car park and I made a few bob on it, and that's when I said to myself 'that was a bit of fun',' she recalls.
'I was always doing a buy and sell, just buying and selling stocks. Dealing in cars is very similar.'
She officially started trading at her Rathnew showroom in Co Wicklow in March 2020. Previously she had sold cars from her family home in nearby Ashford.