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*CANADIAN PODCAST AWARDS Nominee (for 2021 & 2022) A fiction podcast about a recent college grad's misadventures in love and life. SYNOPSIS: When Brooklyn Winters graduates from university, she thinks that her adult life will “just kind of figure itself out.” Spoiler alert: this doesn’t happen. Six weeks after graduation, she has no job, no money, and is frantically calling her best friend to come and rescue her from the basement suite she has unwisely moved into with her dud of a boyfriend. ...
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It was only for a few minutes, but it was still great to spend time with Rhasidat Adeleke as she came down from the high of Paris 2024, with a whole new life as a full-time professional athlete laid out before her. We spoke about the impact of the Olympics, village life, how she handles being involved in commercial partnerships, and whether she is …
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In today's 86th episode of the Sport for Business Podcast, we are diving back into questions of leadership and the future. I’m joined by Warren Deutrom the CEO of Cricket Ireland and proud to be getting stuck in, after recent announcements, to planning for a future with a national cricket stadium; a World Cup coming to Dublin and Ireland in 2030; t…
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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 Irelan…
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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 c…
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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 …
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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 te…
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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 Lithuan…
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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 …
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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 …
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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 r…
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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…
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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 i…
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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 Voda…
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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 insid…
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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 yo…
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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 l…
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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…
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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…
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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 r…
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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 a…
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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 ha…
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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 importanc…
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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, thro…
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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 Iris…
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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.…
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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 hi…
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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 campai…
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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 rat…
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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…
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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 …
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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 gambl…
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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. W…
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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 partnersh…
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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 w…
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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 trac…
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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 remembe…
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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 year…
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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 an…
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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 th…
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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 wa…
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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 n…
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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…
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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 gu…
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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 un…
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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…
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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 t…
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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 …
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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 al…
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