Shane Ross: No funding until OCI reforms

Minister for Transport Shane Ross has warned he will not reinstate funding for the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) until it cuts ties with shamed ticketing agents THG and implements reform.

Almost half a million euro in funding has been withheld for this year and last after after it was caught up in the Rio ticketing scandal and its then president Pat Hickey was arrested in Brazil.

The minister told the Oireachtas Committee on Sport it was clear from a judge-led inquiry into the scandal, that Pat Hickey had run his own “fiefdom” and the OCI let him.