The High Court has agreed to push back by one week a hearing dealing with liability for legal costs in the civil case brought by Nikita Hand against mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor and his friend James Lawrence.

Rape victim Nikita Hand is faced with the prospect of having to pay the legal costs for Conor McGregor's co-accused James Lawrence.

The MMA fighter was found liable of assaulting a woman who accused him of rape in a Dublin hotel six years ago - with a jury awarding her more than €248,000 in damages

The CCTV footage showing Nikita Hand, Mr McGregor, Mr Lawrence and Ms Kealey at the Beacon Hotel in Sandyford was shown to the jury and was frequently referenced by the defendants and their lawyers in support of their denials that Ms Hand was raped or was in any distress at all.

Sexual assault survivor Nikita Hand stated yesterday that she was confident in winning her civil case against MMA fighter Conor McGregor, emphasizing that she had been "telling the 'truth from day one.'"

Conor McGregor has branded Nikita Hand a "vicious liar" on social media after protesting the decision of a civil trial that found he had assaulted the woman in a Dublin hotel in 2018.

A woman who won her civil claim against Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor has said she hoped her case will remind victims of assault to keep “pushing forward for justice”. Nikita Hand, who accused the sportsman of raping her in a Dublin hotel in December 2018,

Several hundred people have marched in Dublin in support of the woman who won a civil rape case against Conor McGregor. On Friday, a jury at the High Court in Dublin found the mixed martial arts fighter had assaulted Nikita Hand by raping her in a hotel in Dublin in December 2018.

Conor McGregor has taken to social media to break his silence after being ordered to pay damages to former prison guard Nikita Hand following a civil trial in Dublin