Mr. Kieran Mulvey:

Nobody asked me to intervene. I was there and, having heard the reports on the radio, felt it incumbent on me as chairman of Sport Ireland to do what I could to reconcile the differences between the Minister and the then president of the OCI. My view was that I could not stand there and watch it all happen, and get worse, given the international reputational issues that were involved.

My natural instinct was to try to mediate between the parties and determine whether something could be done to address the matter and whether, once the Rio games were over and people had come back to Ireland, some form of investigation or inquiry could take place.