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Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin

Conor McGregor’s Trump meeting was ‘sinister’, says Irish rape crisis centre

McGregor with Donald Trump in the Oval Office on St Patrick’s Day
McGregor with Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Saint Patrick’s Day. Photograph: Daniel Torok/White House/Planet Pix/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

An Irish rape crisis charity has complained about Conor McGregor’s meeting with Donald Trump at the White House, describing it as a “sinister” move that could help “launder” the mixed martial arts fighter’s reputation.

Rachel Morrogh, the chief executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, has written to the US embassy in the Irish capital raising concerns about the meeting, which took place on Monday, Saint Patrick’s Day.

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