Irish boxing champion Ceire Smith is suing her dentist and the HSE claiming her boxing career has been damaged after she swallowed a sharp dental instrument during root canal treatment.

Many protesters carried their children in their arms or on their shoulders, shouting: "Our bodies are ours!"

Police have searched the house of the Brazilian Olympic committee's president and issued a warrant forcing him to give evidence in an investigation into bribery surrounding the awarding of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

The OCI is on a journey to try and re-establish its credibility after the Rio tickets scandal, writes Daniel McConnell.

The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) has rubbished reports that they are going to initiate a process to have Pat Hickey removed from his role with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

So what happens next?

An Olympics ethics body and Irish corporate enforcers are among the groups that will examine the critical report into alleged ticket touting in Rio.

The murky ticket-touting scandal that has engulfed the Olympic Council of Ireland was compared to something out of The Godfather.

TDs will decide this month on whether to compel Pat Hickey to answer questions about the Rio ticket scandal.

The absence of details around payments to the Olympic Council of Ireland for tickets to the Games bought by agents is expected to be investigated further in the wake of the Rio ticket touting inquiry.

The Government report into the Rio Olympics ticket- touting scandal may leave some questions unanswered.

It’s been ten months and two days since the closing ceremony at the Maracana Stadium brought an end to a deeply flawed extravaganza in Brazil but, for the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), Rio 2016 is the Games that never ended.

Hopes of reclaiming Ireland’s prominence in the boxing ring at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo are being undermined by a high performance system roundly criticised by the ‘Rio Review’, according to heavyweight Darren O’Neill.

Good, but could do better. If Ireland’s performance at last year’s Olympic Games were a report card it would read as exactly that.

Less than six months after Rio de Janeiro hosted the first-ever Olympics in South America, game venues sit idle and already in disrepair, raising questions about a legacy that organisers promised would benefit the Brazilian city and its residents.

Pat Hickey is going to have to pay over €400,000 to leave Rio.

Judge Moran has appealed for members of the public to get in contact about their experiences in applying for tickets for the Olympic Games this year.

Temporarily stepped aside Olympic Council of Ireland president Pat Hickey has blocked the publication of a vital report into alleged ticket touting.

Paralympian Orla Barry is already targeting Toyko gold after being honoured in Cork for her silver medal in the F57 discus in Rio.

The sport has featured rampant doping by many of its most successful nations.

When it was over, Pat O’Leary strapped back on his left leg and walked off down the pontoon in Rio de Janeiro’s spectacular Lagoa Stadium to find his family.

"I was just freaking out. I just kept telling myself: 'keep long and strong, don't panic'."

Ireland's cyclists have won an incredible two gold medals in the past hour at the Rio Paralympics.

Such a pity events that have nothing to do with the great athletes of Team Ireland will cast a shadow over Irish Sport in 2016, writes Seán Kelly.

Not many finalists would admit their dislike of an event they happen to have a special ability for…

There are commisisons of investigation afoot into alleged garda malpractice and alleged ticket touting at the Olympics. The Nama inquiry is just another problem being long-fingered by the Coalition, writes Michael Clifford

Pat Hickey has come out fighting against charges laid against him by Brazilian authorities, claiming he will contest “each and every one”.

With the exception of Michael McKillop’s glorious gold medal, yesterday proved a disappointing day for much of the Paralympic team in Rio.

"They are still sticking to their story. Whether we believe it is a question mark and we are looking into it."

“We’re disappointed. We were aiming to get a personal best today but it wasn’t good enough on the day.”

“He is a truly inspirational figure.”

Ireland's second medal has arrived at the Rio Paralympics only hours after the first.

The International Olympic Committee said it has not received any request from Brazilian police for information concerning an investigation into a ticket-scalping scheme during the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.