A woman who won a civil case against Conor McGregor is to sue him and two other people for damages alleging they engaged in malicious abuse of court processes. In November, McGregor was ordered to pay £206,000 in damages plus costs to Nikita Hand, who accused him of raping her in a hotel in Dublin in 2018.

Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has lost his legal appeal against a civil court's finding that he sexually assaulted a woman at a Dublin hotel.

Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor on Thursday lost his attempt to overturn a jury’s order that he compensate a woman who accused him of raping her, with Ireland’s Court of Appeal rejecting the appeal in its entirety.