McGregor sister's prison visit to mobster

Aoife stays silent over trip to see criminal jailed for 18mths

-  PAUL HEALY

A SISTER of UFC star Conor McGregor kept quiet when confronted about her latest jail visit to a notorious mobster.

Our exclusive pictures show Aoife McGregor, 36, a sister of The Notorious, arriving to see Kinahan cartel-linked criminal Graham "The Wig” Whelan at Portlaoise Prison yesterday.

This is Ms McGregor's second prison visit with Whelan, 39 - who was jailed in November for money laundering for a criminal gang - and a the first time she has been photographed doing so.

When approached outside the prison, following her visit yesterday, Ms McGregor declined to comment, keeping her head down, and staying quiet as she emerged from the gates of the maximum-security prison.

Donning a long coat, pink mask and a Dior designer handbag, Ms McGregor, who has no involvement in criminality, spent just under an hour inside the top-security prison, where she met with Whelan, who is serving an 18-month sentence.

Graham Whelan was one of two men charged following a €1.6million drug bust at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Dublin's Pearse Street in 2000.

The fallout from the raid split a gang of drug-dealing thugs and led to the infamous Crumlin-Drimnagh feud that left 16 men dead.