Olympic Council fella Pat Hickey Arrested in Rio

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

His solicitor now pleading with the judge that he won't live long enough to see out the trial if he's not allowed home for heart surgery. Must try that excuse the next time I'm in trouble.
28 years at the head of the IOCTL.

This excuse fits very nicely with the mental image of a scheming chancer wriggling to get off the hook.

Again, quite a coincidence that we're discussing the relative merits of the Irish and Brazilian judicial and medical systems while the Deloitte report is seeing the light of day for the first time.

The Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) has inadequate audit functions, is not transparent and pays little or no attention to ethical functions, a report into the organisation has found.

The report says no member of the executive committee, on which Mr Hickey sits, should serve more than two four-year terms. It says there is “strong evidence” that limiting terms “prevents the dominance of one viewpoint or mode of thought”.

Full article here:

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/oci-pays-little-attention-to-ethical-functions-report-says-1.2846122

brooke 2 wrote: »

Heard Kieran Mulvey on RTE this evening, pleading for Pat Hickey to be allowed home to his loving family for Xmas.
'We Irish are a humanitarian people' and would hope that the Brazilian authorities would let an old man with health
difficulties fly back to Ireland soon. I do believe that a request has been made to return his passport to him. It was
gas listening to Mulvey - thought he was going to burst into tears any minute.

Mulvey should be ashamed of himself going on national media pleading for Hickey.
He will lose the little credibility he has if he keeps that **** up.

The 71-year-old's solicitor Simone Kamenetz has told Independent.ie that he is "sick". She added that if Mr Hickey is not allowed to return to Ireland then he will not live long enough to see the end of the case. - Independent.ie

This is absurd. I hope the Brazilians don't cave to this desperation.

He's at death's door, so to speak, haven't you heard.

No doubt that's what his mate, Duffy, would come out with.

Isn't he on an extended holiday . sure he not locked up in jail

Seems like he still has a lot of friends in the media.

Spotted this on Irish Times today:

Pat Hickey’s Olympic ‘family’ should be given gold for cowardice
Support for former OCI chief Pat Hickey has arrived late in the day.
The IOC refused to criticise manner in which the Rio police had treated their colleague
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/pat-hickey-s-olympic-family-should-be-given-gold-for-cowardice-1.2847517

ahlookit wrote: »

Eamon Sweeney laments Delaneys departure in todays Indo. Kind of.






http://www.independent.ie/sport/it-seems-that-john-delaney-has-become-the-latest-irish-public-figure-to-resign-after-doing-nothing-wrong-35172607.html

He has raised sarcasm to a magnificent artform in that article.

Winterlong wrote: »

do they not have hospitals in Rio?

Sure do, and according to Hickeys lawyer he has a very good doctor too

"He suffers from atrial fibrillation, and the cardiologist who saw him already twice, Dr Claudio Domenico, a well known and reputable physician, established that Mr Hickey's situation is preoccupying.

On another note Eamon Sweeney calling him Pat Ticketmaster Hickey had me in stitches.

Pat hickey has got the oci deloitte Olympics ticket report delayed after threatening an injunction. He must have got something to hide.

I love to be pat lawyers. They must be making a fortune issuing legal letters.

Aren't the OCI funding Pats case (unless he loses or something)? So is the OCI taking out an injunction against itself?

Good to see Pats illness isn't preventing him for enjoying his main pastime of threatening court action on everyone.

This decision was made after the body received a letter from Mr Hickey’s lawyers in which he threatened to make an application to the High Court for an injunction preventing the completion of the review.

The OCI's Executive Committee has decided not to incur the very significant additional cost of defending any such legal proceedings.

http://www.rte.ie/sport/olympics/2016/1102/828765-oci-review/

SO are the OCI not willing to incur costs of legal proceedings in Ireland because they are too busy incurring costs of legal proceedings in Brazil

So Pat is threatening the very company funding his stay in Brazil, or am I missing something?

Kamili wrote: »

So Pat is threatening the very company funding his stay in Brazil, or am I missing something?

pretty much, yeah. But sure theyre all part of the Olympic Family :rolleyes:

In other Olympic news that Cork walker Rob Heffernan finally got his bronze medal from the London Olympics today. It had been stripped off a Russian who was found to be doping. I was just thinking though the IOC wouldnt even give it to him at the Rio Olympics just gone so he could at least have a chance of receiving it in an Olympic stadium in front of a crowd. The IOC would prefer sweep their doping scandals under the carpet rather than allow an athlete his day in the sun