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The Olympic Federation of Ireland is the new name for the Olympic Council of Ireland, since 15 September 2018. The Irish Olympic Council was founded in 1920, while the Irish War of Independence was pitting the Irish Republic proclaimed by Sinn Féin against the Dublin Castle administration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
The OFI sees itself as representing the island rather than the state, and hence uses the name "Ireland". [2] It changed its own name from "Irish Olympic Council" to "Olympic Council of Ireland" in 1952 to reinforce this point. [2] (The change from "Council" to "Federation" was a 2018 rebranding after the 2016 ticketing controversy. [63])
Officials, including the President and the International Olympic Committee Delegate, of the National Olympic Committee for the island of Ireland, which has been known over time as the Irish Olympic Council (IOC), Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), and Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI).
[1] [5] He was elected to the executive committee of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) in 1981 and was in successive Irish Olympic delegations from Los Angeles 1984. [1] He became president of the OCI in 1989 on the recommendation of Lord Killanin, former president of the OCI and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). [3]
Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin was elected as Honorary President of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) in 1950, and became the Irish delegate at the IOC in 1952. He eventually became senior vice-president of the IOC in 1968, and succeeded Avery Brundage to the presidency on 23 August 1972, being elected at the 73rd IOC Session in Munich ...
President of Olympic Council of Ireland Eamon "Ned" Broy [ 1 ] (also called Edward Broy ; 22 December 1887 – 22 January 1972) [ 2 ] was successively a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police , the Irish Republican Army , the National Army , and the Garda Síochána of the Irish Free State .
In 1990 it became the "Mountaineering Council of Ireland" (MCI). The current name was adopted in 2009. Mountaineering Ireland became a member of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) in June 2018, with Sport climbing set to become an Olympic sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021. [ 11 ]
Ireland would go on to field at least one crew at every Olympic regatta except 1984. [19] Four years later, Drea came fourth in the same event. [20] At the 1996 Summer Olympics, the crew in the men's lightweight coxless four consisting of Derek Holland, Sam Lynch, Neville Maxwell and Tony O'Connor also came fourth. [21]