Nine months since most of the OCI executive resigned, members will vote tonight on the proposals which were part of recommendations in the wake of the Rio ticketing scandal.

The Brazilian ticket-touting court case in which Pat Hickey was expected to testify at the end of November has been suspended.

The money was used to allow the former ANOC vice president to receive bail in Brazil last year.

The Sports Minister Shane Ross has indicated he’s renewing funding for the Olympic Council of Ireland.

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.

Minister for Transport and Sport Shane Ross has confirmed he will consider referring the critical report on ticketing touting in Rio to corporate enforcement investigators.

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.

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 “failure by so many principal participants” to cooperate with the Government's inquiry into the Rio 2016 ticket scandal has been slammed by the Judge who carried out the probe.

The Dáil has heard claims that the revenue from ticket touting is going towards organised crime gangs around the world.

A formal investigation has been launched by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission into ticketing of live events, citing “suspected breaches of competition law” as the reason for its probe.

Ticket sales should be limited for individuals and identity checks made in order to clamp down on ticket touting, TDs have said.

Pat Hickey has returned to Ireland, after what he says were an "extremely traumatic few months".

Pat Hickey could get his passport back in Brazil today.

Pat Hickey’s legal team has confirmed that the bond money required for the release of his passport has been received in Brazil in recent days.

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

The International Olympic Committee has revealed that it will not pay the bond that the former president of the Olympic Council of Ireland Pat Hickey is required to produce as a condition of being allowed leave 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.

The chair of the crisis management committee of the OCI has resigned from the executive board.

THE publication of the report by consultants Deloitte into how the Olympic Council of Ireland goes about its business sadly means the sports body can be added to a depressingly long list of institutions that, after being investigated by an independent agency, have been found to be, if not dysfunctional, then pretty close to that sorry state of disarray.

Leading figures in the European Olympic movement have said there is no proof of the “horrible accusations” against former Olympic Council of Ireland president Pat Hickey and have called for him to be allowed to return to Ireland.

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

There are commisisons of investigation afoot into alleged garda malpractice and alleged ticket touting at the Olympics. The Nama inquiry is just another problem being long-fingered by the Coalition, writes Michael Clifford

Pat Hickey has come out fighting against charges laid against him by Brazilian authorities, claiming he will contest “each and every one”, writes Noel Baker of the Irish Examiner.

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.

The International Olympic Committee said it has not received any request from Brazilian police for information concerning an investigation into a ticket-scalping scheme during the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

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.