Sport for Business

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast, we are back on the Road to Paris, to the Olympic and Paralympic Games with our partners and sponsors of Team Ireland, Permanent TSB. An Olympic Gold Medal is about as rare a commodity as you will find in sport.  In fact, there are only four living Irishmen that have one in their possession so it is special to chat today with one of them, Fin...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast, we are kicking off a new series that I have been really looking forward to.  We spend a lot of time focused on youth but life is a spectrum and in The Voice of Experience we will be chatting to those who have made a significant contribution to the places we find ourselves in now and who have an informed perspective on how things might go in...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are returning to our Insights series looking at research into the world of sport and activity, and placing it in a meaningful  context  Benny Cullen is our guest for this episode and the subject is the Irish Sports Monitor published in the last few days as well as research into the sporting and activity levels of children across the island...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are returning to the Business of Golf series talking with movers and shakers from across the sport. Mark Nolan is the general manager at Dromoland Castle host venue for the revived KPMG Women’s Irish Open in 2022 and 2023. Our chat covers how he got into the luxury game, what hosting the open has meant for the hotel, where he likes to go o...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are returning to our series talking with alumni from our Sport for Business 30 Under 30, in partnership with our good friends at PwC Lorna Danaher was nominated and appeared on our list in 2020, you remember those days when no-one could travel more than 2 kilometres from home and we were all locked down. Well the 30 under 30 that year was...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are returning to our series looking at Leadership. The Aer Lingus College Football Classic takes place each August at the Aviva Stadium and this year we are welcoming Notre Dame and Navy to Dublin Town Today’s Podcast is all about the leadership it takes to bring an event like this together. We are joined by Padraic O’Kane who you will hea...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are returning to our series looking at The Business of Rugby. The Rugby World Cup is on the near horizon and with Ireland going in as the number one ranked team in the world, the pressure to do everything right is intense. Our Business of Rugby Podcast series and daily content is enabled through the great support of our partners Bank of Ir...

Let us know what’s on your mind Hello and welcome to the Sport for Business Podcast. In today's Podcast we are returning to our series looking at The Business of Golf. With big tournaments on the near horizon, golf tourism delivering real value for the economy and golf clubs bringing the sport to an ever bigger and ever younger audience, there is no better time to be diving deeper into the sp...

Let us know what’s on your mind In this week's Thursday Podcast we are looking at the business of Sponsorship, particularly in relation to a unique mix of two key partners of a sport. TG4, the Irish Language national TV station has been a partner of the Ladies Gaelic football Association since 2001. Today we meet with Head of Sport Rónán O Coisdealbha to talk about the opportunities that exis...

Let us know what’s on your mind In today's Podcast we are teeing up the first of a new series looking at The Business of Golf. With long term deals in place for the Horizon Irish Open and the KPMG Women’s Irish Open, professional golf in this country is in a good place.   That’s backed up by the Open Championship’s return to Royal Portrush in 2025, the Walker cup coming to Lahinch in 2026 and...

Let us know what’s on your mind Today we are going into the numbers as part of our Insight series looking at important sporting research. Today’s guest is Jon Long, the Managing Director of ONSIDE Sponsorship and the conversation centres on the publication of the sixth wave of the ONSIDE Sports Impact Monitor, conducted with organisations that are members of the Sport for Business network. We cove...

Let us know what’s on your mind In this episode of the Sport for Business Podcast we are diving into a real passion of ours, the promotion of Women in Sport. Our coverage in this area is in partnership with our good friends at Lidl who have been strong backers of Women’s sport in general and Ladies Gaelic football in particular for what is now approaching a decade. Today’s guest is a pretty specia...

Let us know what’s on your mind On today's Sport for Business Podcast, we are talking football and the final preparations for the Republic of Ireland Women’s National Team in advance of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. All of our football coverage on Sport for Business is in partnership with Sky who are also the primary partner of the Women’s team. We spoke to Head Coach Vera Pauw about this being...

Let us know what’s on your mind Hello and welcome to the Sport for Business Podcast. Today we are talking about inclusion and the importance of sport doing more to be welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community. It’s Pride month and the march has taken place with its usual mix of colour and laughter, though still with an undercurrent that we are nowhere near being there in terms of a full welcome for those...

Let us know what’s on your mind Hello and welcome to the Sport for Business Podcast. Today we are talking about the business of football, with thanks to our football partner Sky. The FAI has unveiled an €863 million plan to radically upgrade the facilities and infrastructure in which the game is played in Ireland. We have covered the plan in detail on sport for business.com where you are welcome t...

Let us know what’s on your mind Today we have a one off series of conversations recorded at the launch of the Pittsburgh Steelers into an island of Ireland marketing partnership. We spoke to the Head of NFL Europe Brett Gosper, to GAA President Larry McCarthy and first of all to Dan Rooney, the Director of Business development and Strategy with the team and part of the fabled family that own the f...

Let us know what’s on your mind The Sport for Business PwC 30 under 30 is an annual list of young people making a name for themselves in the business of sport. PwC is all about identifying and nurturing talent so could not be a better partner in this area of what we do. This has been our eighth year of the list and we have had the pleasure of highlighting some real stars. Later in 2023, we will be...

Let us know what’s on your mind The Olympic and Paralympic Games will take place in Paris across July, August and September 2024. They will be the culmination of years of hard work and dedication on the part of athletes, coaches, administrators, marketers and many more. The Road towards Paris 2024 is a Podcast series that we will be running right up to the games, talking to those who will be there...

Let us know what’s on your mind The Sport for Business PwC 30 under 30 is an annual list of young people making a name for themselves in the business of sport. PwC is all about identifying and nurturing talent so could not be a better partner in this area of what we do. This has been our eighth year of the list and we have had the pleasure of highlighting some real stars. Later in 2023 we will be...

Let us know what’s on your mind In 2022 Clare Shine wrote an autobiography that lifted the lid on the struggles she had faced through mental health and addiction.   Being a professional footballer is not always the sunshine and glamour it can appear and in this episode of our Sport for Social Good series, in partnership with Allianz, we spoke to Clare about how she came through and why talk is so...

Let us know what’s on your mind Hello and welcome to the Sport for Business Podcast. Today we bring you the latest in our Leadership Series where we talk to the CEOs of our leading sporting organisations about their plans, their hopes, their ambitions and their favourite things. John Feehan was for many years the top man at the Six Nations and the British and Irish Lions.   After a short break, in...

Let us know what’s on your mind Today we bring you the latest in the Sport for Social Good Series, in partnership with our friends at Allianz. Darkness Into Light takes place on Saturday, May 6th.  Very early in the morning. It’s a ten-year partnership between Pieta House and Electric Ireland and we popped into the new Electric Ireland Headquarters to have a chat about it with the company’s Execut...

Let us know what’s on your mind Technology is forever changing the way that sport is played, ruled, watched, consumed, prepared for, and engaged with. In this Sport for Business Podcast series, we explore the areas where change is happening, from Ireland and around the world, talking to the people who are creating that change. This morning we go to just outside Sheffield in England, to speak to Jo...

Let us know what’s on your mind Our Tuesday Podcast this week is the first in a new series looking at sponsorship opportunities across the Irish sporting landscape. We will talk to sporting rights holders, teams and individuals about what it is that might make their proposal stand out and deliver for a brand looking to engage the hearts and minds of an audience that they can reach. This series has...

Let us know what’s on your mind Technology is forever changing the way that sport is played, ruled, watched, consumed, prepared for, and engaged with. In this Sport for Business Podcast series, we explore the areas where change is happening, from Ireland and around the world, talking to the people who are creating that change. This morning we go to Boston Massachusetts, to speak to Mike Colarossi,...