New era for OCI as Swim Ireland chief Sarah Keane elected president

The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) has a new president for the first time in 28 years after Swim Ireland’s Sarah Keane was swept in to the position with a vote at the body’s EGM in Dublin’s Conrad Hotel late last night.

Keane was one of three candidates to succeed Pat Hickey who had stepped down last year in the wake of the Rio ticketing controversy.

Of the 43 votes available, she succeeded in attracting 29 at the first attempt.