Sport for Business

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 85th episode of the Sport for Business podcast, we continue our short series of interviews in advance of the Paralympic Games, which will get underway in Paris on August 28th. Next up is Shot Putter Mary Fitzgerald, who will thrive on the energy of a full stadium, friends, and family in Paris. An occupational therapist with Enable Ireland in the day...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 84th episode of the Sport for Business Podcast, we continue our short series of interviews in advance of the Paralympic Games, which will begin in Paris on August 28th. Next up is the lively spirit that is sprinter Orla Comerford, the visually impaired athlete working in the visual arts and running faster than ever heading to Paris. We chat about her...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 83rd episode of the Sport for Business Podcast, we continue our short series of interviews before the Paralympic Games, which will get underway in Paris on August 28th. Next up is Ana Maia, a crucial member of the team behind the team in Paris and the Classification Manager of Paralympics Ireland. Over the next 15 minutes, we will guide you through w...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 82nd episode of the show, back after a short Olympic fuelled summer break, we are diving into the world of Formula One, and the position of an Irish company at its very highest level. Colin Westcott-Pitt is the Global Chief Brand Officer at Glanbia Performance Nutrition, and his signature is only just dry on a deal with the McLaren F1 team. Glanbia i...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 81st episode of the show, we are kicking off a short series of interviews with Team Ireland members who will represent us in the Stade de France as part of the Athletics team at the Paralympic Games. First up is 1500-metre runner Greta Streimikyte, who is ready to compete in her third Paralympic Games after coming to Ireland from Lithuania. Our Paral...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 80th episode of the show, we are back on the Road to Paris. Our guests are Beibhinn Parsons and Harry McNulty, who hope to be stars of the Irish Rugby Sevens teams. They are coming off a great year and heading to the Stade de France with genuine medal ambitions. TritonLake became the title sponsor of the Ireland Men’s and Women’s Sevens teams in June...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 79th episode of the show, we are again focused on the Sport for Business PwC 30 Under 30. The 2024 intake came together in recent weeks, and this is the second in a short series of interviews with those who have shown the potential to be leaders in our industry for years to come. We are joined by Craig Derham who could have been gracing the pitch at...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 78th episode of the show, we are firmly on our Olympic Pathway, chatting to James O’Callaghan, the Performance Director at Irish Sailing and a man with a real passion for the Games. We chat about Ireland’s three boats, the sailors in them and their journeys both to Marseilles and beyond. There are some great lessons to be learned about resilience, th...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 77th episode of the Sport for Business Podcast, we are focused on the Sport for Business PwC 30 Under 30.  The 2024 intake came together in recent weeks, and this is the first in a short series of interviews with those who have shown the potential to be leaders in our industry for years to come. We are joined by Michelle Davoren, a master's Grad...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 76th episode of the Sport for Business Podcast, we are chatting with David McHugh, the newly minted captain of Wasserman’s Irish operation, founder of Line Up Sports, friend, mentor, and commercial adviser to a host of Irish sporting stars including Tadgh Furlong, Paul O’Donovan and Kellie Harrington. We talk about what that role means in terms of hi...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 75th episode of the show, we are chatting about sponsorship with Daragh Persse, the founder of the Brand Fans and the driving force behind the establishment last week of the European Sponsorship Association or ESA’s first fully-fledged national extension ESA Ireland. Daragh’s credentials in the game are impeccable having worked with Vodafone on GAA,...

Let us know what’s on your mind Hello and welcome to the Sport for Business Podcast. I’m your host Rob Hartnett and In today's 74th episode of the show, we are chatting with the man who is in charge of guiding PTSB’s partnership with Team Ireland, the Olympic Federation of Ireland and Paralympics Ireland, Ger Mitchell. A softly-spoken man of Tuam in County Galway he lets us inside the ropes o...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 73rd episode, we are chatting with bestselling author, business leader, one-time sponsor of the Ryder Cup and now Director of the British and Irish Lions, Nuala Walsh. She has written Tune In - How to make smarter decisions in a noisy world and it is a book that will make you smarter by reading it. There are loads of examples to guide you, ten of the...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 72nd episode of the show, we are returning to a special occasion that takes place every year and gets us out of bed even earlier than usual. Darkness into Light is a coming together of people from all walks of life and for thousands of very personal reasons to walk into the dawn and raise money for Pieta House. Electric Ireland are the long term spon...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 71st episode of the Sport for Business Podcast we are kicking off our 2024 Series on Leadership. In this we will speak to those who have risen to the top of their sporting organisations and for whom the buck stops at their desk. It is our privilege to chat with Brian Molloy, elected in recent weeks as the first ever male President of the Camogie Asso...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 70th episode of the show, we are joined from New York City by Laura Weber, the designer of Team Ireland’s Opening and Closing Ceremony outfits. We chat about fashion and the way it should make you feel, where the connection came to become the designer of such an iconic piece of the Olympic story and so much more. Our Road to Paris Series is in Partne...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 69th episode of the show we are joined by the Race Director of the Irish Life Dublin Marathon, Jim Aughney. We chat about the reasons why he is still excited about the race in his fourth decade of managing it, the things that wake him up in the middle of the night and the importance of the agreement with Dublin City Council to keep the race at the he...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 68th episode of the show, we are joined by Hall of Fame former captain of the Irish Women’s rugby team Fiona Coghlan. There was a record crowd for an Irish Women’s Six Nations Game at the RDS this season for the game against Italy but still no win and now the focus switches to Cork this weekend and the visit of Wales Fiona joined us at an Energia eve...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 67th episode of the show, we are back in the Business of Gaelic Games. The GAA is basking in the glow of a great Allianz Football Finals weekend but sport is so often all about the next thing and with the Championship season starting almost straight away the Association has launched its first new advertising campaign in five years.   We have a previe...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 66th episode of the show we are back in the Business of Golf, looking at the launch of the 2024 Legends Tour event at Seapoint Golf Club. We have a rich cast of characters to explore why the Legends is an important part of the golf landscape.   We’ll hear from Roddy Carr on the impact of Tourism, and from Keith Mitchell about the importance of reachi...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 65th episode of the show, we are back to the Business of Football and a big week for the FAI and their new sponsor Sky Ireland. We are joined by Orlaith Ryan the Chief Commercial Officer of Sky here in Ireland  Sky are also our Primary Partner for football coverage on Sport for Business so we were delighted to head up to the offices, through all the...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 64th episode of the show, we are starting a new series looking at the importance of Children’s sport. We are joined by Anne Smyth of Electric Ireland and Nora Sullivan a Ph. D. researcher and a player with Belfast Ravens to look at some recent research and some lived experience. The Electric Ireland Game Changers partnership with the Irish FA is into...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 63rd episode of the show, we meet with Ireland’s Chef de Mission for the Paralympic Games. What you may well ask is a Chef de mission?   This Road to Paris series is supported by Team Ireland partner PTSB helping athletes and all of us be altogether more human. The human side of bringing the team to Paris involves a lot of decision-making. This is ab...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 62nd episode of the show we meet with Ireland’s first-ever Double Swimming World Champion and a genuine contender for Paris, Daniel Wiffen This Road to Paris series is supported by Team Ireland partner PTSB and amongst other things we find out from Daniel what it is that an athlete looks for from a good sponsor. We also find out about his hopes for P...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 61st episode of the show, we meet with the Ireland and Leinster Full Back Hugo Keenan. We don’t normally focus on players so much as those who enable them to be brilliant but when you are out at the High Performance Centre and Hugo is there well it would be rude not to. The Business side comes when we are talking about the Energia campaign for which...