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Let us know what’s on your mind The SSE Airtricity League is in the final countdown for a new season that promises to be the biggest, best and most important of recent years. A new branding, the renaming of the Women's Premier Division, two new teams coming into the mix, and plenty more besides. We went to the launch of the League for the first in our new Business of Football Podcast, in part...

Let us know what’s on your mind In this second episode of our Women in Sport podcast we turn our attention to coaching. Áine Kinsella is the assistant coach with the Wexford Senior Man's Football team competing in the Allianz League and the Leinster Championship.  She is a rarity, for now, as a woman in what remains a man's world but there is evidence throughout our conversation on how t...

Let us know what’s on your mind Back in November Warren Deutrom, the CEO of Cricket Ireland joined us on the podcast to talk about the advance of the sport here in Ireland and the ambition to compete at the highest level on the world stage. He also spoke of the disappointment that the Government had not at that time been persuaded of the merits of infrastructure investment to build a national aren...

Let us know what’s on your mind One in four women suffers domestic abuse behind the closed doors of their home.  This is a shocking figure and Allianz wants us all to Stand Strong against abuse on Monday, February 6th. Today's podcast is the first in our Sport for Business Sport for Social Good series, backing up the annual report and annual conference we will be hosting towards the end of Ma...

Let us know what’s on your mind It's the start of the Lidl National League in Ladies Gaelic Football and we were at the launch to chat with some of the players. Dublin Captain Carla Rowe told us what it was like picking herself up after last year and featuring on the Man United Instagram account. Two-time All-Ireland Champion Emma Duggan speaks about how things have changed in the backroom at...

Let us know what’s on your mind The second in our Insight Podcast series is a conversation with Rob Pearson about the Teneo Sport and Sponsorship Sentiment Index, published in December 2022. We chat about the nature of a broad-based survey and the different perspectives that can give. We cover the importance of team and individual in capturing the imagination and the admiration of the public, and...

Let us know what’s on your mind In the fifth episode of our Sport for Business Leadership series we speak to Hamish Adams, CEO of Athletics Ireland. How did a boy born on a farm in rural New Zealand end up at the helm of Irish Athletics and what are the 4 M's that summarise what he is implementing across the sport? We talk about the expectations in a sport that every country in the world want...

Let us know what’s on your mind In the fourth episode of our Sport for Business Leadership series we speak to Warren Deutrom, CEO of Cricket Ireland. We talk about the highs and lows of performance; about bringing a sport from an employee base of one to 40 and turnover of €250,000 to more than €12 million; about the ambition to make cricket mainstream in Ireland, matching its position elsewhere ar...

Let us know what’s on your mind This is the first of a new Sport for Business Podcast Series where we look behind the why of sports policy and sports thinking. We will talk to researchers and those who crunch the numbers behind performance, participation and different aspects of our sporting life. First up is Benny Cullen, the Director of Research and Innovation at Sport Ireland. We talk about the...

Let us know what’s on your mind In the third episode of our Sport for Business Leadership series we speak to Federation of Irish Sport CEO Mary O'Connor. How did a player who won twelve inter-county All-Ireland titles transition into the world of sports administration and how easy did she find it at first to master the detail and the strategy of representing sport in all its forms to the Gove...

Let us know what’s on your mind Our latest Business of Rugby interview is with Martin Anayi, CEO of the United Rugby Championship. It was recorded in the First Class Lounge of Hamad International Airport in Doha at the announcement of Qatar Airways as a sponsor of the Championship. Over the course of 30 minutes, we talk about his career as a player and realisation that business was a better option...

Let us know what’s on your mind The Business of Rugby Podcast from Sport for Business.   Our theme is to talk one-to-one with those who are making a difference off the field of play in the sport. Today we are talking to Ben Calveley, Managing Director of the British and Irish Lions.  We look at where the Lions sit in the rapidly changing landscape of the global game, what it is about the idea of t...

Let us know what’s on your mind In the second episode of our Sport for Business Leadership series we speak to Dubai Duty Free CEO Colm McLoughlin. He has been part of the Duty Free scene for more than 50 years but his entry to it took some interesting twists along the way. He talks openly about the power of sporting sponsorship, about what works, how they became a major sponsor in tennis, golf and...

Let us know what’s on your mind In the first episode of our Sport for Business Leadership series we speak to Sport Ireland CEO Dr Una May. We talk about her hopes and plans for how Sport Ireland can be a positive enabler across the sports sector, about plans for creating one of the best Sports Campus facilities in the world, and about winning a lampshade in her first half marathon in Ballyferriter...

Let us know what’s on your mind The Sport for Business Podcast will bring you interviews with the key players in the commercial world of sport. They will be open and frank looks behind the dressing room curtain giving you a different perspective on sport in all its many forms. Find out more about what Sport for Business does in the commercial world of sport at www.sportforbusiness.com and join us...