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Conor McGregor's dad has revealed the incredible moment his son told he and mum Margaret that he was paying off their mortgage and spoiling the whole family with new cars.

Tony McGregor said that not long ago he couldn't keep his taxi on the road - and now the whole family are driving slick BMWs as a result of The Notorious' success.

Tony revealed: "The gesture just blew us away."

He told Ryan Tubridy on RTE Radio One this morning: "When he came home from LA, he called us all up to his new abode up in the golf course, and he sat us all down and he just spelled it all out with his accounting firm, what they were going to do for us.

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"So they decided to buy the house off us, that's the way it's going to be, he's going to buy the house off us, we'll hold lifelong interest in it. It's a huge gesture, we're really very lucky."

Tony said that the whole family was there for the meeting - his mother Margaret, two sisters and long-term girlfriend Dee Devlin, along with the accountant.

He added: "He spelled it right out, what he was going to do for us. We walked out of there and we all had BMWs, I'm driving a 5-series, brand spanking new, his mother's driving one, his sister's driving one.

"They've been parked outside our house since the night he came home.

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"We're very grateful and we know the position we're in, he understands how we feel about it."

Tony McGregor said that he was well aware of how lucky the family were and explained that he had lost his job in the taxi industry during the recession.

He said: "Things have turned around and it's looking very well for us now and we're aware of that fact.

"We travel with him [Conor] all the time, it's all very well now, we're going to some really salubrious locations - Vegas, Sweden, Boston, but we've also been in the less salubrious locations prior to him signing for the UFC.

"We did the GAA halls, we did the small venues before he was signed, we've been there from the start."

The proud dad joked that his son's lavish lifestyle meant that he purchased his own plush pad for his trips back to Ireland and he no longer stayed at the family home.

He laughed: "It suited him at the time, he had his own self-contained quarters upstairs, himself and his girlfriend lived up there, they didn't bother us...there was room there for everyone.

"It suited him at the time, it doesn't suit him now. He has an A-list lifestyle so he's more used to the jacuzzis and swimming pools and we don't have that!"

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Tubs recalled the moment he met The Notorious and asked his dad where he reckoned McGregor's fighting talk attitude had come from.

And Tony said he was none the wiser: "This is a thing that mystifies me, we didn't see that persona, the only indication we had of that persona was the moment he won his first UFC fight in Sweden.

"I remember in the cage, when he shouted 'Where's the 60gs baby?' but when he gave the post-fight conference in Sweden, that's when his show business personality was born.

"I think he saw that himself and he just built on it.

"The Sweden post-fight conference and your show - those two incidents - they were the marked periods in this show business personality.

"He's on the cusp of signing the biggest deal in UFC history, he knows exactly where he's going, and in the business stakes."