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Pat Hickey has been appointed by Jacques Rogge IOC President to work on three major IOC Commissions ,established to study certain subjects and make recommendations to the IOC Executive Board.

Genesis, the international sports and business consultancy, has published its Beijing Olympic Games Review, on behalf of the Olympic Council of Ireland, stating that despite Ireland’s medal performances in boxing, Ireland ranks lowest of eight comparable nations overall in terms of Olympic success.

The Olympic Council of Ireland has signed a major co-operation agreement with the Georgian Olympic Committee covering a wide range of of topics including sport exchanges, athlete training, and coaching.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that six National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have submitted applications to host the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2014. They are, in alphabetical order: China, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Poland and Turkey.

Whilst Irish athletes in the sports of Womens 2x Bobsleigh, Cross Country Skiing and Skier Cross events pursue their qualification aspirations around Europe, the organisers of the Vancouver Games are getting ready to mark the one year to go mark.

Olympic Council of Ireland representatives met with Minister of Sport Martin Cullen and Department officials in Dublin, 28th January. It was part of a series of meetings requested by the Minister, post Beijing, to discuss the establishment of a system of support to ensure consistency of performance at future Olympic Games.

Representatives of the Olympic Movement, led by the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge and Pat Hickey (EOC), today met with Ján Figel', European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, and his delegation at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne.

The Olympic Council of Ireland has signed a major co-operation agreement with the Romanian Olympic Committee covering a wide range of of topics including sport exchanges, athlete training, coaching and sports medicine.

The Olympic Council of Ireland have been meeting their Winter sport athletes and offiicials to review 2008 and shape programme plans for 2009/10.

International Ski Federation President Gian-Franco Kasper will oversee preparations for the first Winter Youth Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, in 2012, it has been announced.

European Olympic Committee President Pat Hickey, has been named in a distinguished group of people expected to have the greatest impact on the Olympic Movement in the year ahead. Hickey is named in 12th place in the "Around the Rings" magazines "Golden 25" most influential Olympic people.

The Olympic Council of Ireland has expressed its pleasure at the news that Kenny Egan has decided to stay in amateur boxing and make a bid to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games.