Sport for Business

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 60th episode of the show, we meet with J Batt, the Athletics Director of Georgia Tech University in Atlanta. Georgia Tech will play Florida State University in this year’s Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Dublin’s Aviva Stadium. We chat about the changing world of college athletics, about managing 18 high performance programmes rather than just...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 59th episode of the podcast we focus on High-Performance sport and the funding of programmes and individual athletes. I’m joined by Niamh O’Sullivan, High-Performance Director at Sport Ireland Our conversation covers the background to the increase in Funding over this current cycle towards the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, what the money is use...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 58th episode of the podcast, we return to the Business of Football in this week of the start of the 2024 SSE Airtricity League of Ireland Season I’m joined by Mark Scanlon the Director of the League of Ireland at the FAI and we have a wide-ranging conversation about the growing popularity of the League, investing in grounds, the quality of the player...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 57th episode of the podcast, we are talking all things Superbowl, live from Las Vegas with Conor Brophy of Teneo and the Irish NFL Show. We talk about the big game itself and the juggernaut that is the NFL. Along the way, we touch on TV numbers, Sponsorship, U2, Taylor Swift, the billionaire socialism that keeps the sport fresh and gambling, well, wh...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 56th episode of the podcast, we start a new Sponsorship Series talking to the decision-makers at the highest levels of Irish and international sport.   We start with Anneliese Mesilati who manages the North American sponsorship portfolio of UBS. Working with Lewis Hamilton is one of the perks of Anneliese’s job but there are plenty more.   We get an...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 55th episode of the podcast we dive into the Business of Football with Tony Doyle of Wexford FC. We are on the cusp of the start of the 2024 SSE Airtricity League of Ireland season and this is the first in a series of interviews looking at where the League is and where it is going. Our Sport for Business football coverage is in partnership with Sky,...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's 54th episode of the podcast we turn our attention firmly to the future, and a focus on how innovation can make it better in the world of sport Technology is driving change at a faster rate than we can comfortably stay on top of so we all need a helping hand.  That is what TU Dublin and Technology Ireland Digital Skillnet are offering by way of an exc...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast, we are focusing on the importance of volunteering. It’s something on which the sporting world in Ireland turns, worth billions if you add up the hours of work that people willingly give, but there is a crisis.   One in Four volunteers did not come back after the pandemic. To find out more and figure out ways to get it back on track, Sport Ir...

Let us know what’s on your mind Today's Podcast comes in our Women in Sport Series and tells the remarkable story of how the University of Nebraska Volleyball programme set about creating a world record attendance at one of their games. 92,003 supporters packed into the Nebraska Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska to watch the team and enjoy an experience that they will remember forever. Gr...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are focusing on tennis and the staging of Ireland’s important Davis Cup tie against Austria on the first weekend of February. We were joined at the Fitzwilliam Club in Dublin by Tennis Ireland CEO Kevin Quinn, player Osgar O h’Oisin, and Vice Captain David O’Hare for a chat about the context of this first home tie in nine years, how they a...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast, we are back in the world of insight. John Trainor is the founder of Onside Sponsorship and recognised across the industry as being the Father of detailed insight on what makes sponsorship work. The Annual Who Won Sponsorship Series returned this week and it was a great gathering from across the sector. After the lights dimmed and the convers...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast, we are bringing you the second in a short series of Women in Sport interviews recorded live at the Irish Film Institute at our tenth annual Women in Sport Conference. It was a great morning and we kicked things off after the all-important networking coffee with Nora Stapleton who is responsible at Sport Ireland for the policy that relates to...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast, we are bringing you the first of a short series of Women in Sport interviews recorded live at the Irish Film Institute at our tenth annual Women in Sport Conference. Our Women in Sport partners are Lidl who have been great champions of Ladies Football at every level over the past six years and long into the future as well. It was a great mor...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast, we are getting nerdy with the latest in our popular insight series. I’m joined by Louise Burke, the Participation director at Sport Ireland who earlier in November launched Get Ireland Active, an online facility where we can all check on local sports facilities, clubs, and activities in our local area or when we are visiting a new place. Thi...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast, we are focusing again on the Business of Rugby  This series is in partnership with our good friends at Bank of Ireland, proud sponsors of Irish Rugby, and where they encourage us to never stop competing.  We are doubling down with guests in this episode, our 51st, with Niall Woods, founder, and Jordi Murphy, newly retired from the pitch and...

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 Podcast, we are focusing in once more on the world of Women in Sport.  This series is in partnership with our good friends at Lidl, proud sponsors and champions of Ladies Gaelic football where they are making a difference at every level of the game. Our guest this mor...

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 Podcast, we are back in the world of the Business of Football.  This series is in partnership with our good friends who support all our football coverage, Sky Ireland.  They bring us the best of the football action from the Premier League and every sport under the sun...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today’s podcast, I’m delighted to be joined by Olympian and two-time world champion Rhys McClenaghan.   Our Road to Paris Series is in partnership with PTSB - proud partners of Team Ireland for the Olympics and Paralympics and altogether more human. Rhys is a joy to talk to and we do just that about his life as a Gymnast, the trauma of his fall at the Tokyo Games...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today’s mini podcast I’m delighted to be joined by Davy Fitzgerald.   He is some man for one man and while his focus is now on Waterford Hurling ahead of next season, he is also the creator and Head Coach, well in his own head at least, of Ireland’s Fittest Family.   We chat about this, have a think about what Roy Keane might be like as a coach on the show and ge...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today’s podcast, the focus is on technology.  Not in terms of broadcast or performance management but in the way we coach our kids. I am joined by Michelle Walsh who has spent a life as a storyteller in advertising as a mum on the sidelines and now as the co-creator of an app that is taking her native New Zealand by storm. Coachmate is improving not only the qual...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are focusing again on the Road to Paris and in this instance the Paralympic Games This series is in partnership with our good friends at PTSB who have just launched their great looking new branding, with Olympians and Paralympians to the fore, and who are proud sponsors of Team Ireland and proving that banking can indeed be altogether more...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are focusing in on the world of Gaelic Games and the role that one of its stars is playing in ending world hunger.  This series is in partnership with our good friends at AIB, proud sponsors and champions of the GAA at Club and County where they know what it takes to get to the top of the Toughest peaks. Our guest this morning is five-time...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are focusing in on the world of Women in Sport.  This series is in partnership with our good friends at Lidl, proud sponsors and champions of Ladies Gaelic football where they are making a difference at every level of the game. Our guest this morning is from a sport that doesn’t often feature on our radar something which makes it of intere...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are focusing in on the world of Sport for Social Good,  This series is in partnership with our good friends at Allianz.  For years they have been supporting the Paralympic and Olympic movements here in Ireland as well as Gaelic Games, Cumman na mBunscoil, and memorably over the last two year’s,  Women’s Aid.   They use the very best of spo...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast, we are back in the world of the Business of Football,  This series is in partnership with our good friends who support all our football coverage, Sky Ireland.  They bring us the best of the football action from the Premier League and every sport under the sun, and if you don’t want to sign up to a contract they have Now TV which allows you t...