Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has pleaded guilty to one charge of assault after an altercation in a Dublin pub in April.<\/p>\n
Footage of the incident released in August showed McGregor punching Desmond Keogh in the head at the Marble Arch pub in Drimnagh, south of the centre.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the 31-year-old was convicted and fined 1,000 euros (\u00a3861).<\/p>\n
The court heard Mr Keogh did not want to give a victim statement and that he had accepted an apology from McGregor.<\/p>\n
McGregor was promoting his own brand of whiskey at the pub when the altercation took place on 6 April.<\/p>\n
“It doesn’t matter what happened there – I was in the wrong,”\u00a0he told ESPN in August<\/a>. “That man deserved to enjoy his time in the pub without having it end the way it did.”<\/p>\n The Irishman announced his retirement from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in March, but has since said\u00a0he plans to make his return to the sport in January 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n He has not competed since\u00a0his loss to Russia’s Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 in October 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is not the first time McGregor has had trouble with the law. In July 2018\u00a0he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in a US court<\/a>\u00a0after an altercation with other fighters.<\/p>\n The incident in the Dublin pub came a month after the alleged smashing of a fan’s phone in Miami.<\/p>\n Florida prosecutors dropped all charges against McGregor.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"