Sports Minister Shane Ross has said any attempt to compel former Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) president Pat Hickey to appear before an Oireachtas committee could result in a legal challenge.

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

Latest: The Oireachtas committee meeting about the Rio ticket touting inquiry has been suspended because one of the clerks has taken ill.

Latest: Former Olympic Council of Ireland President Pat Hickey has been invited to answer questions before a Dáil committee.

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.

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

A draft of the report from the €300,000 inquiry into the Rio Olympics ticketing controversy is to be circulated to certain parties next Friday.

Pat Hickey is returning to Ireland.

A Brazilian bank has received the €400,000 bond required to allow Pat Hickey to leave Brazil.

Pat Hickey is to get a loan from the Association of National Olympic Committees to pay his bail in Brazil.

Update 6.54pm: Pat Hickey is to pay the bond and accept the terms laid down by a Brazilian judge in order to have his passport returned to him.

Latest:The Sports Minister Shane Ross has said he expects Pat Hickey to fully co-operate with the state inquiry into alleged ticket touting, and has no plans to meet him.

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

Pat Hickey's legal team is warning he needs to come home from Brazil for heart treatment.

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

Pat Hickey claims he is innocent of all charges laid against him by a Brazilian court, and will fight each and will vigorously defend his good name.

A judge in Brazil has accepted charges against former Olympic Council of Ireland President Pat Hickey.

Rio de Janeiro police investigating a ticket-scalping case say they want the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to explain why Ireland's allocation of Summer Games tickets increased.

More affiliate members of the Olympic Council of Ireland have called for a review of structures within the OCI, as one member organisation insisted a constitutional review was “long overdue”.

Brazilian authorities investigating the Olympic ticket touting scandal have held another press conference in Rio.

Pat Hickey is due to speak with police in Rio later today.

Pat Hickey has said he will fight the charges against him 100%.

OCI president Pat Hickey has been granted bail by a judge in Brazil - who says he is unlikely to serve time in Bangu jail, even if convicted.

The Irishman arrested over alleged ticket touting has appeared in court in Brazil as part of his bail conditions.

Pat Hickey’s family wants the Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan to meet with the Brazilian ambassador to Ireland to discuss the handling of his case.

Pat Hickey could be released from jail in Brazil this week - as the investigation into reported ticket touting at the Olympic games continues.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has said his department is providing ongoing consular assistance to Pat Hickey through the Irish Embassy and Consulate in Brazil.

Update 5.20pm: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charlie Flanagan has responded to the appeal by the Hickey family for Government intervention by issuing a statement.

Lawyers for embattled Olympic Council of Ireland official Pat Hickey have urged Brazilian authorities to transfer him from the notorious Bangu prison to house arrest because he is facing a wait of up to three months to be either charged or freed writes Irish Examiner political reporter Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

Two Irish Olympic executives have told Rio police that the Olympic Council of Ireland's long-time president, Patrick Hickey was in sole charge of ticketing matters, a top investigator has said.

Update 10.56pm: Update 10.56pm: Pat Hickey was the “big leader” of the OCI’s ticketing operation, police in Brazil were told in interviews today with two OCI officials, a top Rio detective has said.

Latest: Police in Rio have claimed that they have access to emails between Pat Hickey and Marcus Evans of the THG Group relating to the sale of tickets for the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Brazilian police have raided the Rio offices of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) this morning, it has been revealed.

The Olympic Council of Ireland will meet later today to discuss the fallout from the Rio ticketing scandal.

The O’Donovan brothers became the nation’s darlings, but we’ll remember the Rio Games for all the wrong reasons, writes Catherine Shanahan

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

Ireland is setting up a judge-led inquiry into the Olympics ticketing scandal.

The Minister for Sport Shane Ross has said Irish athletes have carried a really strong, shining torch for Irish Sport.

Pat Hickey, president of the Irish Olympic Committee who stepped side temporarily yesterday, was described recently as “Teflon Man” but he will need the slipperiness of an eel to slide out of his latest brush with controversy.