Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info If somehow Conor McGregor ever manages to get his name near a ballot paper, we may look back on it as his “they’re eating the dogs” moment. In his desperate bid for populist political power, the ludicrous one had to identify an enemy of the people. Pick that one thing that is repressing the masses and keeping us all from enjoying the good life. And this time it’s not the economy; it’s Ireland’s traffic laws stupid. “The traffic corps of An Garda Siochana…has caused untold stress onto the people of Ireland,” he railed in an ‘interview’ with US mouthpiece Tucker Carlson. “I wonder the amount of suicides, the amount of lives lost, and families destroyed over the stress of the Traffic Corps.” (Image: The Tucker Carlson Show/X) You can’t say you weren’t warned by this column that McGregor and his alpha bro worshippers have always dreamed of turning us into a road warrior dystopia. Mad Mac has 19 violations of the traffic laws notched on his steering wheel already. He has been banned from driving for being a menace to public safety. But now we know it wasn’t his fault. It was all down to those nonsense, woke rules of the road being weaponised against him. Presumably his crusade against law and order would not stop at this traffic madness, however. What about the nanny state horsesh*t of not being allowed punch old men in pubs? Or indulge yourself in a spot of public order mayhem? And as for huggy-feely, so-called civil laws that can find you liable for rape when you were just having a good night…leave it out. McGregor and his devotees on the online right don’t like the laws and rules the rest of us are protected by. Mostly because they are the ones they are there to protect us against. (Image: Instagram/ Conor McGregor) They don’t like regulations or any guard rails put in place to stop their natural born right to behave like assholes whenever they like. But making the roads great for assholes again is just one part of the Mac Manifesto. Your wannabe next president also sees himself as the guardian of “his people”. Never mind that the only time he put himself before any of those same people for judgement, 12 of them found he had raped a woman on a night out. Or that opinion polls say 94 percent of his people don’t want to see him anywhere near the Aras. That didn’t stop him braying into the right-wing echo chambers of US propaganda that Irish culture is dying, and he is here to save it. Last weekend I sampled some of that same culture McGregor claims is dying and being “over run” before our eyes. I enjoyed an epic game of hurling. I sampled pints of glorious Dublin stout brewed in St James Gate while watching some of the city’s finest homespun folk music. I journeyed across town (on well policed roads) to raise a glass to a 90-year-old relative who is currently being cared for by mainly immigrant workers in our health care system. Over the course of one bank holiday weekend I found plenty of the Irish culture that I love. It’s alive and kicking. And it’s no thanks to McGregor whose version would be a cheap and mean imitation. A culture of toxic bloodsports. With people forced to drink his rank, vanity porter and whiskey under threat of violence. A society where it’s open season for thugs to beat up old people, punch down on anyone weaker and throw their weight around on the public highways. A culture of vultures. Give me the “wokeness-gone-mad” of decency and the rule of law any day. Join the Irish Mirror’s breaking news service on WhatsApp. Click this link to receive breaking news and the latest headlines direct to your phone. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don’t like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you’re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.