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Conor McGregor and Dee Devlin donate €25k in toy vouchers to homeless charity

CONOR MCGREGOR and Dee Devlin have donated €25,000 worth of toy vouchers to Inner City Helping Homeless.

The Notorious and his long-term partner donated the vouchers for Smyths Toys to the charity ahead of Chritmas.

ICCH thanked the couple, who have two children in Conor Jr and Croia, on social media.

They posted: "Thank you so much to Conor McGregor and Dee Devlin who kindly donated €25,000 of Smyths Toys vouchers to us to distribute to families at our Santa's Grotto at the #FillanXmasTruck event and to families we supported in the run up to Christmas.

"We appreciate the kind donation of the vouchers and sponsoring the Santas Grotto allowing us to help make children's Christmas more special."

McGregor makes his return to the UFC next month when he faces Donald Cerrone in Las Vegas.

Conor McGregor, Dee Devlin, Conor Jr and Croia with Santa (Instagram/thenotoriousmma)

The Dubliner hasn't fought since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in October of last year and hasn't won a fight since beating Eddie Alvarez in November, 2016.

Meanwhile, Cerrone has denied he is being paid to lose to McGregor at UFC 246.

McGregor is expected to target fights against Jorge Masvidal and a rematch with Khabib Nurmagomedov if he gets past Cerrone in Las Vegas.

But while all the attention ahead of UFC 246 has focused on McGregor's first fight since losing to Nurmagomedov 14 months ago, Cerrone insists he is no speed bump on the Irishman's road to bigger match-ups.

There have even been rumours Cerrone is taking a huge payday from the UFC to lose against McGregor and set him up for the fights ahead.

'The Cowboy' hit out angrily at such speculation.

“Hell no, I’m not bowing down,” Cerrone told MMA Fighting .

Conor McGregor and Donald Cerrone will clash in Las Vegas (Twitter/UFC)

“There’s a bunch of s**t going around, people keep telling me ‘I heard you’re getting paid to take a dive.’

"There wouldn’t be enough money in the world for someone to pay me to take a dive. I could never look myself in the mirror if somebody paid me to take a dive. S**t, never happen."

He added: “I’d rather fight for free than take money to f**king lose. That’s not me. I’m going to fight my ass off like I do every time.”

Cerrone has lost his last two fights, against Tony Ferguson and Justin Gaethje - and many believe it should be the latter of those two getting to headline UFC 246 against McGregor.

However, he holds the records for most wins and most finishes in UFC history, and won three in a row before facing Ferguson and Gaethje.

“I’m still No. 4 or 5 or whatever the hell I am," he said.

"It’s not like I’m getting beat up by bums, somewhere down there getting tumbleweeded in the rankings pool.

“I don’t know where I’m sitting but I’m still at the top of the list.”

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