Gardaí have denied reports which claimed that Conor McGregor is being officially investigated for incitement to hatred.
This morning the Irish Mirror reported that McGregor “is now officially part of an investigation by gardai over alleged incitement to hatred around the Dublin riots.”
The Mirror said it had “learned that following an examination of recent social media remarks by the UFC star, McGregor is now part of a wider official criminal probe which was formally alluded to yesterday by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris.”
It was reported that the UFC star is being investigated in relation to a number of tweets he sent last Thursday after three small children and an adult were stabbed by a man outside an Irish school in central Dublin.
However a Garda spokesperson told Gript that “a formal criminal investigation has not commenced in respect of any individual, or group of individuals at this time.”
The statement said that while An Garda Síochána does not comment on named individuals they are “aware of a large volume of commentary and posts on a variety of social media platforms and messaging apps by a number of different individual accounts.’
The spokesperson said the force are continuing to “examine such comments, posts and messages to assess any potential breaches of criminal legislation” but that at this stage a “formal criminal investigation has not commenced in respect of any individual, or group of individuals,”