What did Garron Noone say before deleting social media pages amid backlash

Irish TikToker Garron Noone made headlines this week following his sudden departure from social media amid backlash to a TikTok video he made speaking about Conor McGregor's meeting with US President Donald Trump.

At the start of video Garron explained the reason he was posting it was because he had been asked numerous times by followers for his views on the issues McGregor mentioned to Trump and the American media.

Garron also expressed reluctance to speak on the subject due to backlash he could face online.

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In the video Garron said: "Now, I get asked for my opinion on these kind of serious topics all the time, I don't know why people care because I just shout at cups of tea on the internet."

He continued: "My opinion on Conor McGregor is irrelevant but I don't think he's a good person, I don't think it's particularly hard to find evidence of that.

"But it doesn't surprise me in the least to see a lot of people agreeing with what he was saying."

From there, Garron said: "There absolutely is an immigration issue in Ireland. That doesn't mean that people feel like we shouldn't take the refugees that we're able to take. It doesn't mean that people feel like people shouldn't be able to come here for better opportunities.

"The systems that we have in place are being taken advantage of, and that is plain to see. And the government continually does not allow people to express their concerns about that."

Garron also said that what is cementing the issue is that Ireland "continues to become one of the richest countries in the world while most people's quality of life is going down".

He said: "Our towns and especially our cities are becoming much less safe, now 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.

"Communities all over Ireland are concerned, and their concerns are continuously not being heard and when you continuously 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."

He concluded: "Now, no doubt a load of people in the comments are going to completely misconstrue what I've said here but that's the internet for you."