OCI president Pat Hickey was advised to put Shane Ross ‘in his place’

Olympic Council of Ireland president Pat Hickey was told by a legal adviser to put Transport and Sport Minister Shane Ross “in his place” on the eve of a crunch meeting in Rio on Sunday night.

The email correspondence between Mr Hickey — who stepped aside “temporarily” from all Olympic roles due to the growing ticket touting scandal amid growing calls for an independent inquiry last night — and a Dublin-based legal firm was revealed by Brazilian police.

In a litany of evidence allegedly linking Mr Hickey to the ticket touting scandal engulfing Irish sport published yesterday, Rio police included a lengthy email to Mr Hickey from a colleague in Ireland last weekend.