‘Conor McGregor is willing to become a pain in the Aras

In the polling booth early yesterday, with only a crisp ballot paper and its 16 smiling, beseeching headshots for company, a 17th face gatecrashed my consciousness. It belonged to Ireland's titan of political assessment, the nation's selfless, modest and deep-thinking muse, Conor McGregor. Not so long ago, as he deployed his piercing social media loudhailer to storm-whip the Dublin rioters ("Ireland, we are at war"), McGregor openly fantasised about taking up residency in one of the Phoenix Park's storied institutions. READ MORE: There was nothing classist about criticism of Conor McGregor from this direction READ MORE: Conor McGregor vows to…