Event: Olympic ticket scandal

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Transparency key to sports funding says minister

Sports Minister Patrick O’Donovan has vowed to impose strict new transparency rules on sporting bodies receiving State funds in response to the Rio Olympics controversy unless full clarity on how money is spent is provided.

Mon, 05 Sep, 2016

Country’s good name is at risk - Olympic ticket scandal

THERE is an onus on Pat Hickey, president of the Olympic Council of Ireland, to immediately respond to mounting pressure from politicians and the public to clarify the mystery surrounding the scandal of over 1,000 tickets for the games which had been allocated to the OCI, turning up for sale on the black market in Brazil.

Fri, 12 Aug, 2016

We, the people, deserve answers to Olympics controversies

Shocking, embarrassing, and disappointing. That was sports minister Shane Ross’s response yesterday to the double scandal to engulf Ireland’s Olympic dream in Rio. Who is to blame, asks Daniel McConnell

Thu, 11 Aug, 2016