Event: Irish Olympic movement

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Olympic chiefs confident Irish Olympians will handle heat and humidity of Japan

Some of the brains behind Ireland’s Olympic assault on Japan next summer are confident that Rory McIlroy and others competing in green can actually profit from the soaring temperatures and high humidity expected throughout the Games.

Wed, 06 Nov, 2019

OCI should contribute to Irish sport, ‘not take money out’

Nine months since coming through the most tumultuous period in its history, the Olympic Council of Ireland wants to become financially independent from all Government funding in the coming years.

Fri, 01 Dec, 2017

FAI boss John Delaney resigns as vice president of OCI

Football Association of Ireland (FAI) chief executive John Delaney has resigned from his voluntary post as vice president of the Olympic Council of Ireland.

Wed, 26 Oct, 2016

Hickey slams ‘cheque book politics’

THE leading Olympic official in the country has launched a stinging attack on the Irish Sports Council’s High Performance Unit which, he claims, has failed in its brief to produce results at the Games despite record levels of funding.

Thu, 07 May, 2009

Minister: Abbotstown will attract Olympic hopefuls

IRELAND’S ability to benefit fully from the London Olympics in 2012 will, to a large extent, be determined in December by Finance Minister Brian Cowen’s decision whether or not to approve €120m needed for the proposed sports campus at Abbotstown.

Fri, 21 Oct, 2005