Time to consign rotten culture to history

The murky ticket-touting scandal that has engulfed the Olympic Council of Ireland was compared to something out of The Godfather.

It seemed the Mafia had controlled tickets for games, one TD said, and the resulting scandal showed the “abuse of power” that had festered within the OCI.

These were some of the remarks made at the Oireachtas Committee on Sport, as it got stuck into the critical report on the Rio ticket-touting affair and its links with the OCI.