'He isn't a good man' - Mayo TikTok star reacts to Conor McGregor controversy
Ballina native Garron Noone speaks out about immigration and warns of extremism if concerns of the people keep getting suppressed
Mayo man and social media comedian Garron Noone has taken to a serious topic in one of his most recent TikTok videos and had to publish a second one only shortly after that.
In his first video, Noone spoke in reaction to Conor McGregor's visit of US President Donald Trump, which has sparked massive criticism. Noone begins his two-minute clip by explaining, that he had been inundated with messages to talk about this.
"The entire story of the world is being retold in poorly researched headlines and 40-second fu***** TikTok clips and it's making people fu***** nuts."
"My opinion of Conor McGregor is: I don't think he's a good person. I don't think that it's particularly hard to find evidence of that. But it doesn't surprise me the least that a lot of people are agreeing with what he was saying. "
Noone continues by claiming: "There absolutely is an immigration issue in Ireland. That doesn't mean, that people feel like we shouldn't take the refugees in that we take. It doesn't mean, that people feel, that people shouldn't come here for better opportunities."
"The systems that we have in place are being taken advantage of. And that is plain to see. The government does not allow people to continuously express their concerns about that."
The musician and video producer then says: "Ireland continues to become one of the richest countries in the world, while people's quality of life is going down."
The TikTok star who was a guest on the Late Late Show on some occasions, then makes even stronger assumptions, by claiming:
"Our towns and especially our cities are becoming much less safe. That's not just because of immigration. There's a lot of factors to that. But if you can't see that that's happening, then you have not left your house."
He finishes with a warning, that, in his view, something should be done, or people would turn towards extremism:
"Communities all over Ireland are concerned. And their concerns are continuously not being heard. If you continue to suppress what people are feeling, you turn them towards more extreme beliefs, you increase their distrust in the government and you push people towards racism and extremism."
In a second video posted afterwards, Noone acknowledged that "if we cannot talk about these things, it's going to make people more extreme, which we have witnessed in other countries."
He finished by stating "I'm absolutely not anti-immigration. I want to be very clear: Fu** the far-right and stay delicious."