OCI affiliates urge structural review

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”.

Bernard O’Byrne, the chief executive of Basketball Ireland, said affiliate members of the OCI had not met to discuss possible changes to governance at the top of the organisation but said: “I imagine it will be a topic when we do.”

Martin Fleming, the president of the Irish Taekwondo Union, said discussions on possible changes to structures within the OCI could have taken place had there been no controversy surrounding the recent Olympic Games.