Police have launched an investigation into 'criminal damage' at Conor McGregor's Dublin pub after it went up in flames in the early hours of the morning.
The 37-year-old MMA star, who is from Dublin, bought The Black Forge Inn for around £2million in 2020 and this is not the first time it has caught fire.
In 2022, thugs attacked the Irish pub with petrol bombs just hours after the former UFC world champion was there.
On Friday morning, footage emerged of it on fire again, with bright flames and thick plumes of smoke seen billowing out of the entrance.
Several firefighters descended on the pub, in Drimnagh Road in Crumlin, a southern suburb of the Irish capital as they battled to put the fire out just after 3am. Garda officers were also called to the scene and are probing 'criminal damage'.
A spokesman for the force told MailOnline: 'Gardaí attended the scene of an incident of criminal damage at a licenced premises on the Drimnagh Road, Crumlin that occurred at approximately 3:00am on Friday, 25th July 2025.
'The fire was extinguished by Dublin Fire Brigade. No injuries have been reported. The scene is currently preserved and a technical examination will be conducted in due course. Investigations are ongoing.'
Dublin Fire Brigade said it was called at 3.08am, where firefighters found a 'small fire at the front of the building'. 'Using a high pressure hose reel, one fire engine dealt with the incident and no injuries were reported,' a spokesman added.
'The scene was handed over to Gardai.
MailOnline has contacted The Black Forge Inn and McGregor's representatives for comment.
McGregor is often seen hosting celebrities at his Dublin boozer and American rapper 50 Cent celebrated his 50th birthday there ahead of his performance at Longitude Festival earlier this month.
It also follows a tumultuous period for McGregor who has been embroiled in another scandal amid claims he has cheated on fiancée Dee Devlin.
McGregor was embroiled in controversy this month when he was photographed kissing a mystery brunette woman on a beach in Fort Lauderdale.
With his partner Dee - whom he has been engaged to since 2020 - nowhere in sight, questions were raised about their relationship.
Rapper Azealia Banks then added to the furore as she took to X - formerly known as Twitter - to accuse McGregor of sexual harassment.
Last week, Ms Banks, 34, shared nude photos which purported to show McGregor, which she claimed he sent to her unprompted.
Amid the storm, McGregor and Devlin have firmly brushed off the criticism by continuing to show their affections for one another, and put on a very cosy display in one outing.
The couple have been enjoying time in Sardinia together to celebrate Conor's 37th birthday - which was on July 14.
But it is the latest embarrassment to hit the sportsman's relationship with his partner Dee, who was ever-present by his side throughout his sexual assault court case last year.
In 2024, Conor lost a civil case as jurors at the High Court in Dublin found him liable of raping Nikita Hand, 35, in a Dublin hotel on December 9, 2018, with the judge awarding Hand €250,000 in damages.
But despite the verdict, Dee emphatically made it clear that she intended to back Conor - attacking Nikita in a series of posts on Instagram at the time.
In the posts, she wrote: 'Conor and I dealt with these issues privately many years ago, as should be done in a relationship and we have come out stronger than ever.
'We have four beautiful children now whose smiling faces and happy hearts are a testament to who he is and who we are!'
The pair have been together for 15 years and got engaged in August 2020 after Conor proposed while they were celebrating his birthday.
The couple met as teenagers at a nightclub in 2008 and Dee has been a key player in the MMA star's story, supporting him when he was jobless and focused on making it as a professional fighter.
