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

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

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.

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.

FAI chief John Delaney is considering standing down as a senior Olympics official after a Brazilian judge withdrew a warrant issued for his passport.

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.

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

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.

The shock arrest of Pat Hickey yesterday morning has all but ended the 71-year-old’s tenure as president of the Olympic Council of Ireland, which he has led since 1989.

Pro10 Sports Management, the company appointed as Ireland’s Authorised Ticket Reseller (ATR) and whose directors are the subject of arrest warrants, has insisted once again that its process for selling tickets was “fully within ATR guidelines”.

Olympic Council of Ireland president Pat Hickey was told by a legal adviser to put Transport and Sport Minister Shane Ross “in his place” on the eve of a crunch meeting in Rio on Sunday night.

International arrest warrants have been issued for a string of executives of the sports hospitality firm embroiled in the Irish Olympic ticket touting scandal after Brazilian police dramatically claimed the crisis stretches back a decade.

A multi-millionaire British football club owner who is known to keep a deliberately low profile is this morning at the centre of Ireland’s Olympics ticket touting controversy alongside four other directors of one of his lucrative firms.

Ipswich manager Mick McCarthy and his assistant Terry Connor have signed new three-year deals, the club have announced.

Former Republic of Ireland manager Mick McCarthy is set for contract talks at Ipswich Town.

Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy won’t rule himself in or out of the running for the vacant Ireland manager’s job until he’s asked whether he is interested in the role by the FAI.

Ipswich boss Mick McCarthy expects Martin O’Neill to succeed Giovanni Trapattoni as manager of Ireland and believes the Derry native is the perfect man for the job.

Former Ireland boss Mick McCarthy was under no illusions about the size of the task in hand after taking over as manager at the Championship’s bottom side Ipswich Town yesterday — admitting the Suffolk club is a“million miles” from returning to the top flight.

Ipswich today announced that they have parted company with manager Paul Jewell by mutual consent.

IPSWICH boss Paul Jewell is confident he has a chance of keeping on-loan Ireland international Keith Andrews at Portman Road for the second half of the season, despite interest from a string of Premier League clubs.

REPUBLIC of IRELAND midfielder Keith Andrews says he doesn’t expect to play for his parent club Blackburn Rovers ever again.

Ipswich manager Paul Jewell has declared his intention to succeed where Roy Keane failed as Arsenal visit Portman Road in the first leg of the Carling Cup semi-final.

NEW Ipswich Town boss Paul Jewell has backed his predecessor Roy Keane to go on to be a success in management despite last week’s sacking by the Championship club.

IPSWICH TOWN chief executive Simon Clegg confirmed Roy Keane’s departure from the Suffolk club at a Portman Road press conference yesterday morning, the 39-year-old’s contract having been “amicably terminated”.

Philip Ham has had a front row seat for Roy Keane’s Ipswich Town career. He recalls the highs and lows of two tumultuous years dealing with the Corkman.

ROY KEANE’S Ipswich Town adventure appeared to have come to an end last night with the former Ireland skipper on the brink of parting company with the Championship club.