Major retailers in UK and Ireland pull products associated with Conor McGregor

Major retailers crossed the UK and Ireland are to halt selling alcoholic drinks associated with Irish combatant Conor McGregor.

The determination by Tesco and Musgrave came aft a pistillate who said Mr McGregor raped her won a civilian assertion for damages against him.

Nikita Hand, who accused the sportsman of raping her successful a Dublin edifice successful December 2018, won her assertion against him for damages successful a lawsuit astatine the High Court successful the Irish capital.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Musgrave said: “Musgrave tin corroborate these products are nary longer disposable to our store network.”

The web includes SuperValu, Centra, Daybreak and Mace.

A Tesco spokesperson said: “We tin corroborate that we are removing Proper No Twelve Whiskey from merchantability successful Tesco stores and online.”

It is understood that different retail outlets including Costcutter and Carry Out volition besides halt stocking products linked to Mr McGregor.

He and immoderate of his concern partners sold their bulk involvement successful the Proper Number Twelve Irish whiskey brand.

He was reported to person been paid much than £103 cardinal from the merchantability to Proximo Spirits successful 2021.

On Monday, a fashionable video crippled developer decided to propulsion contented featuring the MMA fighter.

We instrumentality this substance precise earnestly and cannot disregard its implications

IO Interactive

The Irish jock has featured successful aggregate video games, including voice-acting a quality bearing his likeness successful further downloadable contented successful the Hitman series.

Mr McGregor’s quality featured arsenic a people for the player-controlled assassin successful the game.

IO Interactive, the Danish developer and steadfast of Hitman, said successful a statement: “In airy of the caller tribunal ruling regarding Conor McGregor, IO Interactive has made the determination to cease its collaboration with the athlete, effectual immediately.

“We instrumentality this substance precise earnestly and cannot disregard its implications.

“Consequently, we volition statesman removing each contented featuring Mr McGregor from our storefronts starting today.”

Last Friday, the High Court assemblage awarded damages amounting to 248,603.60 euros (around £206,000) to Ms Hand.

Mr McGregor made nary remark arsenic helium near tribunal but aboriginal posted connected societal media that helium intended to entreaty against the decision.