The two time UFC Champion Conor McGregor was in the headlines in 2024 for all the wrong reasons to put it lightly .. Despite the Irish man being charge for Sexual Assault, there’s a pub in Dublin that has refused to remove his drink from their shelves ..

“We are very non-political in there,” stressed Stephen Harkin, one of the owners of Harkin’s Harbour Bar. Thanks to the Sunday World for the exclusive

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“Forged Stout is actually Porterhouse and it was rebranded. There were people drinking Porterhouse before it was called Forged. There’s a lot of old men in there that actually drank it before it was rebranded.”

Porterhouse brewery in Glasnevin, which had €7m invested by its previous owners, was bought by McGregor two years ago for an undisclosed sum. The Porterhouse chain of pubs is still owned by the original business people, although part of a separate company.

“It sells, it’s a product,” Stephen points out. “We’re a business and we employ 21 people. We don’t promote certain brands, if it doesn’t sell, it gets thrown out. There’s enough problems going on in the world. If you take that down, you’d be taking everything down.

“We have taken out two products this year because they weren’t selling, one was Madri and the other was Budweiser, believe it or not.”

Read the full piece on the Sunday World