And the Sunday World can reveal that she has appointed the father of her gangster boyfriend, Graham ‘the Wig’ Whelan, as the company secretary of her new business.
Aoife (39) has been going out with Kinahan-linked criminal Graham Whelan (42) in recent years and regularly visited him while he was in prison on money laundering offences.
She has now recruited his father, William Whelan, as part of her new tanning salon in Dublin.
Stop N Glow opened on Bridgefoot Street in the Liberties in December.
Aoife McGregor is listed as the company’s sole director while William Whelan (69) is listed as the company secretary.
The company was set up last July but the business only opened up in recent weeks.
Aoife previously went viral over an expletive- filled voice note she sent to a dog grooming business. She attended her brother Conor’s recent civil case, where a jury found he had assaulted Nikita Hand in a hotel room in Dublin in 2018.
The Stop ‘N’ Glow tanning salon in The Liberties
Conor McGregor, who Ms Hand said had raped her, was ordered to pay his victim €248,000 in damages.
Conor McGregor recently posted a picture of himself on social media promoting his sister’s business.
In the picture, which appears to be taken in the salon, he has a noticeably red face and tanned arms.
Neither Aoife McGregor nor William Whelan are involved in crime.
However, Graham ‘the Wig’ Whelan is a convicted criminal who has strong ties to the Kinahan Cartel.
In August the Sunday World published pictures of ‘The Wig’ and Aoife together with Conor at her sister Erin’s wedding in Tipperary.
Conor and ‘The Wig’ have been pals for years.
Aoife, ‘The Wig’ and Conor were also pictured partying together ahead of a Katie Taylor fight last year. ‘The Wig’ was sporting a noticeable tan in pictures posted of them together.
‘The Wig’ has 34 convictions, including five drugs convictions.
He was a close pal of David Byrne, who was shot dead in the Regency Hotel attack as part of the Kinahan-Hutch feud.
Conor McGregor posted on social media about Aoife’s business
Last year, he was caught up in a crackdown on rogue companies.
He is listed as a director of Eco Green Wheelie Clean Ireland – a company which described its principal activity as the collection of non-hazardous waste.
The company was incorporated in July of 2018 but hadn’t filed accounts since January of 2020.
All registered companies are obliged to file annual returns with the Company Registration Office (CRO).
It was listed for strike-off by the CRO early last year
Aoife McGregor and Graham ‘The Wig’ Whelan
In December 2022, Whelan was released from prison after serving an 18-month sentence for money-laundering.
‘The Wig’ was previously jailed for six years over a €1.6million drug seizure at a hotel in Dublin city centre.
The infamous bust, carried out at the Holiday Inn when Whelan was just 17, was seen as the beginning of the Crumlin-Drimnagh feud which resulted in 16 people being murdered.
The Sunday World previously revealed that Whelan is a regular player for McGregor’s Black Forge pub team, and even handed over a cheque for €750 to homeless charity Stronger Together, which expressed shock when informed as to who had handed over the money.
Aoife McGregor
His Eco Garden Wheelie Clean business remains on the strike-off list.
In November, the Sunday World revealed that Kinahan Cartel figures Dean Howe and Liam Brannigan opened a coffee shop in the Liberties in Dublin.
Gulliver’s, which opened over the summer, operates out of a hatch beside a bicycle shop on Patrick Street, near St Patrick’s Cathedral.
The Sunday World pictured Howe smiling and serving customers through the hatch in the stall with many of those unlikely to be aware their barista has links to Ireland’s most notorious cartel.
Howe and Brannigan were released from prison in 2023 for conspiracy to murder a known Hutch associate in 2017.
