Patrick Coveney, who retired in March as the chairman of the Irish Olympic Sailing Group, is to be ratified as an Independent Director of the Olympic Federation of Ireland at its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday evening.
Coveney, who was co-opted to the position by the OFI Executive Committee, served a single term as Sailing's Olympic Group Chairman up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics held in 2021 due to COVID.
Coveney took over from Colm Barrington who retired in 2018 after Dublin Radial sailor Annalise Murphy won Silver at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Barrington is a current Vice Chairman of the OFI.
Murphy, who retired after Tokyo, was appointed in January to the OFI Athletes’ Commission to serve from 2022 to 2024.
Sydney 2000 Olympic discus thrower John Menton now leads Sailing's Olympic Steering Group following the retirement of Coveney.