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30-790: The NACA was formed on 19 July 1922, from a merger of the Irish Amateur Athletic Association or IAAA (including its subsidiary the Cross Country Association of Ireland), the Irish Cycling Association (ICA) and the Athletics Council of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). The GAA was Irish nationalist and mainly rural, while the IAAA and ICA members were mainly unionists , universities, and

60-610: A background of St Patrick's Blue . However, the proposal foundered when an NACA general meeting insisted that the flag used at international events be the Irish tricolour rather than the IAAU flag. The IAAF decided in 1932 not to intervene in the Northern jurisdiction dispute. In 1934, the IAAF amended its constitution to require member associations to be delimited by international political boundaries. After

90-672: A team to all but one of the Summer Olympic Games since 1924 . The 1936 Games were boycotted; this was the first Games after the IAAF 's 1934 ruling on borders which restricted the NACA's jurisdiction to the Free State. In 1952, the Council changed its own name from "Irish Olympic Council" to "Olympic Council of Ireland" to reinforce its claim to represent the whole island of Ireland rather than merely

120-503: A year's delay, the NACA council voted 24 to 27 to reject the IAAF decision and was suspended the following month. There was no Irish team at the 1936 Olympics , other Irish sports boycotting in solidarity with the NACA exclusion. In 1937, some clubs in the Irish Free State left NACA and formed an Irish Amateur Athletic Union (IAAU, the same name as the abortive 1932 proposal) whose remit excluded Northern Ireland. The IAAU applied to join

150-529: The 1956 1500 m was not mentioned at the next NACA executive meeting. In 1959, Tom O'Riordan's scholarship with the Idaho State Bengals was jeopardised when he ran for his local NACA club while visiting home in Tralee . The AAUE, whose Secretary Louis Vandendries was on holiday, reported him to the IAAF, which suspended him; upon Vandendries' return he defused the controversy by informing the IAAF that O'Riordan

180-827: The Baron de Coubertin , who was sympathetic, but the Belgian organising committee deferred to the British Olympic Association (BOA), which took the unionist view that Irish competitors should be part of the British team. By August, Keane was proposing that a separate Irish delegation should march under the Union Jack , on the model of Finland at the 1912 Summer Olympics when part of the Russian Empire . The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to "suspend all decision until

210-655: The Irish Olympic Council from 1920 to 1952, and the Olympic Council of Ireland from 1952 to 2018) is the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Ireland. Athletes from Northern Ireland have the option of participating under its auspices or in the Great Britain Olympic Team . Its mission statement is "To manage and enhance the performance of Team Ireland at Olympic Games whilst developing

240-578: The National Athletic and Cycling Association (NACA) was established merging the IAAA, the CCAI, and the Athletics Council of the GAA, with the GAA thenceforth concentrating on Gaelic games . This Ireland -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Irish Olympic Council The Olympic Federation of Ireland or OFI ( Irish : Cónaidhm Oilimpeach na hÉireann ) (called

270-451: The Republic . Its team competed as "Eire" in 1948 and "Republic of Ireland" in 1952 before reverting to its preferred name "Ireland" in 1956 after Lord Killanin secured the agreement of Avery Brundage . The OCI and BOA have an agreement that Northern Irish sportspeople may compete for either team although in some sports, including rugby and tennis, Northern Irish athletes are barred from

300-666: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . John J. Keane , who was the head of the athletics committee of the Gaelic Athletic Association , met Sinn Féin leaders Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins in Vaughan's Hotel, Parnell Square , in April to discuss the possibility of a separate Irish team at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp . The founding Council members were mostly Irish republican or nationalist political leaders. Keane wrote to

330-523: The British team. The Olympic Federation of Ireland has sent teams to most Winter Olympic Games since 1992 . On 5 August 2016, the day of the 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony , police in Rio de Janeiro arrested two people for attempted illegal resale of hundreds of tickets allocated to the OCI. One of the two was employed by THG Sports , which was the OCI's authorised ticket reseller (ATR) in 2012 but not 2016;

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360-649: The GAA Athletic Council, became first NACA President. Whereas the GAA had a ban on members of the RUC and British Army , the NACA narrowly voted not to introduce such a measure. The NACA affiliated to the IAAF on 11 January 1924, and sent teams to the Olympics of 1924 , 1928 , and 1932 . It also sent five athletes to the 1930 British Empire Games in Canada. In each case, the team was claimed to represent "Ireland" rather than

390-663: The IAAA but not by NACA. Since the meeting was to raise funds for Belfast Celtic F.C. , with an Irish nationalist fanbase, the NACA alienated nationalists as well as unionists in Belfast. The NIAAA affiliated to the English AAA in 1930, with its unionist president Thomas Moles encouraging links within the UK, and Dawson Bates , the NI Home Affairs minister , lobbying the AAA. In 1931, Eoin O'Duffy

420-487: The IAAF, but due to British objections to the name "Ireland" was required to rename itself the Amateur Athletic Union of Éire (AAUE). AAUE affiliation in 1938 meant the NACA was definitively expelled from the IAAF. Most Irish athletics clubs remained in NACA, and it was NACA that was affiliated to the Irish Olympic Council , though it was AAUE athletes who competed at the Olympics. Ronnie Delany 's gold medal in

450-816: The Irish Free State. In 1937, the National Cycling Association (NCA) was formed as a NACA subsidiary for cycling clubs, and affiliated to the UCI. The Rás Tailteann was its headline event, an 8-day stage race whose name reflected the Tailteann Games . Already by 1925 there was a split, with the Northern Ireland Amateur Athletic, Cycling and Cross Country Association (NIAAA) formed over a dispute concerning an Easter Monday sports meeting in Belfast, which as well as athletics featured greyhound racing and associated betting, which had been allowed by

480-576: The Irish Olympic Council was affiliated to the IOC on 3 June 1922. Most sports affiliated to the Federation are all-island in scope. Two exceptions in 1922 were athletics and cycling, each of which had rival bodies; the prospect of Olympic competition precipitated their merging into a unified National Athletic and Cycling Association (NACA), which affiliated to the Council in 1924. The council has sent

510-647: The NACA, and its ban on members playing British sports was extended to ban those competing in athletics and cycling events not authorised by the NACA. The NACA retained some international links, through the International Labour Sports Federation (CSIT). Joe Christle , NCA official and organiser of the Rás Tailteann, was both a socialist and physical force republican . In 1979, the Irish Cycling Tripartite Committee (ICTC)

540-462: The OCI denied any involvement. Shane Ross , the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport , promised a "robust inquiry". Pro 10 Sports Management, the OCI's 2016 ATR, said the man arrested was working as their agent to distribute tickets which had been paid for legitimately. On 17 August, Pat Hickey , the OCI president, was arrested in Rio in connection with the investigation. The issue, together with

570-819: The Olympic Movement in Ireland." In 2018 the Olympic Council of Ireland was renamed as the Olympic Federation of Ireland . 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

600-586: The allocation of tickets for other Olympic events, was set for investigation by a non-statutory inquiry headed by retired High Court judge, Mr Justice Carroll Moran . The OFI has a small staff under a Chief Executive, and is based at Olympic House in Howth , County Dublin . The offices of President and IOC delegate are honorary, as required by the Olympic Charter . While the Olympic Charter mandates that

630-640: The area of jurisdiction of a NOC must coincide with the limits of the country in which it is established and has its headquarters, it does not require this for the national federations of particular sports affiliated to the NOC. Many bodies affiliated to the OCI are organised on an all-island basis, and have selected competitors from Northern Ireland for the Olympics. The following organisations are affiliated, some of which are very small and share an address at "Sport HQ" in Park West business park : Notes: Baseball Ireland

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660-668: The moment when the Irish question would be solved politically". Keane applied again in April 1922, during the provisional administration that was preparing for the formal establishment of the Irish Free State that December. De Coubertin was worried that the Tailteann Games were intended to rival the Olympics, and the BOA's delegate was unsure of the political outlook in the buildup to the Irish Civil War . Keane allayed these worries such that

690-608: The rump NACA reached agreement with BLÉ allowing joint international representation. The GAA officially tolerated BLÉ, but some county boards refused to co-operate with it, and the rule favouring the NACA was not repealed. In 2000, both bodies were dissolved into the Athletics Association of Ireland, which forms Athletics Ireland together with the NIAAA. The presidents of the NACA were: Irish Amateur Athletic Association The Irish Amateur Athletic Association or IAAA

720-648: The same year and linked to the British Cycling Federation . The CRE and NICF co-operated and organised the Tour of Ireland , which attracted fewer Irish cyclists than the NCA's Rás Tailteann but more from abroad. A joint CRE–NICF Ireland team competed in international events, from which the NCA was excluded. Rogue NCA teams joined the 1955 amateur world road race championship and the 1972 Olympics road race in protest at their exclusion. The GAA had always co-operated with

750-646: The urban middle class. The IAAA was linked to the Amateur Athletic Association of England (AAA). The unionist-dominated Northern Ireland and the nationalist Irish Free State had recently been separated politically, and the GAA was prepared to surrender its authority to ensure national unity in athletics and cycling and avoid a division which would reinforce the reality of partition. The GAA after 1923 thus restricted itself to Gaelic games , ceding athletics and cycling to NACA, with which it remained on friendly terms. John J. Keane , previously Chairman of

780-494: Was a governing body for athletic sports in Ireland between 1885 and 1923. The IAAA was formed as the Irish offshoot of the English Amateur Athletic Association in 1885. This was partially in reaction to the formation of the more nationalist Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in 1884. The Cross County Association of Ireland (CCAI) was established in 1886 and later became a subsidiary of the IAAA. In 1923

810-552: Was formed to link the NCA, NICF, and ICF (Irish Cycling Federation, the successor to the CRE). In 1987 all three merged into the Federation of Irish Cyclists (FIC), now operating as Cycling Ireland . After many failed attempts at unification, Bord Luthchleas na hÉireann (BLÉ) was formed in 1967 by the merger of the AAUE and most clubs of the NACA. However, some NACA clubs refused to join BLÉ, though in 1987

840-519: Was formerly affiliated to the OCI, but is no longer listed since baseball was removed from the list of Olympic sports after 2008. The OFI is present on social media , with the Press Office of the Committee running an official Facebook page, as well as Twitter and Instagram accounts. The OFI is also present on YouTube with its own channel. 1: National Olympic Committee is suspended by

870-505: Was now in good standing with the AAUE. The UCI emulated the IAAF in 1947 by requiring the NCA to disclaim Northern Ireland, expelling it when it refused. In 1949, several clubs broke away from the NCA to form Cumann Rothaíochta na hÉireann (CRE), which would restrict its area of jurisdiction to the Republic of Ireland . The CRE was recognised by the UCI, as was the Northern Ireland Cycling Federation (NICF), formed

900-466: Was president of the NACA, and raised at the IAAF the dispute with the British AAA over jurisdiction over Northern Ireland. The IAAF deferred a decision till its conference at the 1932 Olympics . In the meantime O'Duffy tried to resolve the matter by proposing an Irish Amateur Athletic Union (IAAU) in negotiations between NACA and the NIAAA, to have an agreed flag containing the arms of the four provinces on

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