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Conor McGregor helping to set up new Sunday league team to represent Dublin pub The Black Forge

Conor McGregor is helping a Dublin pub to set up a new Sunday league team.

The former two-weight champion is assisting the Black Forge Inn in Drimnagh with getting Black Forge FC off the ground, reports Dublin Live.

A post on Facebook announcing the team tagged McGregor and Black Forge owner Liam Flynn, saying the pub is the "home of the Champs".

It read: "The Black Forge is happy to announce that we are starting up a football team in the near future.

"Starting off with two football teams junior and senior. Dates of training will follow once the numbers for teams are filled.

"Anyone interested pm us and we will move from there. Look forward to hearing from yous."

McGregor has previous experience in the amateur football world in the capital, having previously turned out for Slieveamon United and Yellowstone Celtic in the United Churches League and Leinster Football League respectively before becoming a UFC superstar.

Conor McGregor (©INPHO/Tom Hogan)

The Notorious announced his retirement from MMA over the weekend.

He told ESPN's Ariel Helwani: "The game just does not excite me, and that's that.

"All this waiting around. There's nothing happening. I'm going through opponent options, and there's nothing really there at the minute. There's nothing that's exciting me.

"They should have just kept the ball rolling. I mean, why are they pushing [Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Justin Gaethje] back to September? You know what's going to happen in September, something else is going to happen in September, and that's not going to happen.

"I laid out a plan and a method that was the right move, the right methods to go with. And they always want to balk at that and not make it happen or just drag it on.

Conor McGregor (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

"Whatever I say, they want to go against it to show some kind of power. They should have just done the fight -- me and Justin for the interim title -- and just kept the ball rolling."

He added: "I'm a bit bored of the game. I'm here watching the fight. I watched the last show -- the Woodley-Burns show -- I watched the show tonight. I'm just not excited about the game, Ariel. I don't know if it's no crowd. I don't know what it is. There's just no buzz for me."

McGregor claimed that the UFC have offered him "stupid" fights.

He said: "I had my goals, my plans, the season. I had everything laid out. Obviously the world has gone bleeding bonkers at the minute. There's f*** all happening at the minute. They want to throw me up and down weights and offer me stupid fights. I don't really give a f***. I'm over it."

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