Pat Hickey told to clarify Olympic ticket sales

Ireland’s Olympic boss Pat Hickey has been told by sports ministers Shane Ross and Patrick O’Donovan to clarify urgently what he knows about the ticket touting scandal.

The call by the two ministers comes as it appears that two Oireachtas committees are gearing up to investigate just how this controversy was allowed to happen.

Mr Hickey and the Olympic Council of Ireland have been embroiled in scandal since it emerged that an Irishman, Kevin Mallon, was arrested on Monday for allegedly selling tickets at “very high prices”.