The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) has terminated its relationship with controversial ticketing agency THG, following a mediation process.

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).

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 has today rubbished reports that it is going to initiate a process to have Pat Hickey removed from his role with the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The Oireachtas Committee on Sport has called for a fresh inquiry into the ticketing deal between the Olympic Council of Ireland and THG.

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

So what happens next?

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

Minister for Transport Shane Ross has warned he will not reinstate funding for the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) until it cuts ties with shamed ticketing agents THG and implements reform.

Sports Minister Shane Ross has said the Rio ticket- touting inquiry has revealed an “unknown rotten culture” at the heart of the Olympic Council of Ireland.

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.

Former Irish Olympics president Pat Hickey is at the centre of fresh scandal after it emerged he signed secret ticket deals with ‘banned’ agent THG last year.

Standing in the lobby of a hotel in Rio last year, just days before his arrest by Brazilian police, Pat Hickey did an interview with RTÉ news.

A claim by former Irish Olympics chief Pat Hickey that he severed links with a ticket agent rejected for the Rio 2016 games are contradicted by emails showing his “long standing relationship” with its owner.

The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) has to date paid out €1.5m to cover the fallout from the Rio ticketing scandal, figures obtained by the Irish Examiner reveal.

Families were treated as irritants rather than members of the wider Olympic family, writes Michael Clifford.

An inquiry into alleged ticket touting at the Olympic games in Rio last year says it was hampered by the fact that many of the participants chose not to cooperate.

A report into the alleged ticketing scandal at the Rio Olympics which led to the arrest of OCI President Pat Hickey will be published later today.

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.

A judge in Brazil has allowed Irish ticketing executive Kevin James Mallon to return to Ireland, so long as he pays bail around €420,000.

More confusing than boxing judges decisions, more complex than the rules of synchronised swimming, and more bizarre than BMXers competing at the Olympics, one could be forgiven for struggling to follow Ireland’s Rio Games ticket touting scandal.

THG Sports Hospitality has said that it been appointed official ticket reseller for the Olympic Council of Ireland for the 2018 Winter Games.

Police in Brazil have named Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) sports director Martin Burke as a new suspect in their ticket touting probe.

The Office of the Public Prosecutor in Rio has formally laid charges against Pat Hickey and THG executive Kevin Mallon.

Irish man Kevin Mallon is due to appear in a Rio court today in connection with allegations of ticket touting.

The Olympic Council of Ireland has appointed forensic accounts experts to conduct a root and branch review of the Rio 2016 tickets controversy and will share any of its findings with the Government inquiry by October 10.

The Government’s Olympics ticket touting scandal inquiry may be extended past its 12-week deadline if the scale of information uncovered makes the current schedule unworkable.

Latest: Retired judge Mr Justice Carroll Moran has been appointed to lead the inquiry into the Olympics ticketing scandal.

A full State inquiry into Ireland’s Olympics ticket touting scandal was initially rejected by Government because it would “take years” to complete.

A fortnight on from the first ripples of the multimillion-euro Irish Olympics ticket touting claims, two Irishmen are in a Brazilian jail, international arrest warrants are out for a billionaire football club owner, and a Government inquiry has been launched, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

The Government has launched a three-month non-statutory inquiry to uncover the full scale of Ireland’s Olympic ticket touting scandal — despite concerns that any investigation will be hamstrung by ongoing Brazilian legal cases.