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Sinn Féin has plenty of reason to be worried about Conor McGregor’s political ambitions

The ghost of what Paul Murphy did to it in 2014 is looming, albeit this time from the extreme right rather than hard left

Conor McGregor: ‘It would be easy to dismiss the loudmouth MMA fighter as a political irrelevance – just as Americans did with Donald Trump.’ Picture: GC Images

Sinn Féin has more reason to be concerned about Conor McGregor’s political ambitions – or rather by who he is trying to appeal to with his threats to run for the presidency – than any of the other parties.

The ghost of what Paul Murphy did to it in 2014 – when the anti-austerity candidate’s targeting of the water charges led to his shock victory in a Dublin South West by-election Sinn Féin was expected ...