EIMEAR BREATHNACH

 

Eimear Breathnach is the President of Paralympics Ireland and has always been a powerful role model in terms of seeing the ability rather than the disability in a person.

At the age of 17, she dived into the sea off the Galway coast and broke her neck.

The injuries meant that she would be getting around in a wheelchair from then on. She got involved in sport through the Irish Wheelchair Association and has kept looking forward through a sporting life that transitioned from wheelchair rugby to table tennis and to representing Ireland in that sport at two Paralympic Games in Beijing and London.

She became an Athlete representative on the Board of Paralympics Ireland in 2013, Vice President two years later and then President in May of this year.

It is a voluntary position, requiring a full-time commitment and she is fully deserving of a first recognition in this list.

 

Check out the others who have so far joined the list right here.

 

 

 

This is the ninth edition of our Sport for Business listing of 50 Women of Influence in Irish Sport.

We are proud to do so this year with a new partner in AIG, an organisation that have pledged their commitment to equality in their partnerships with Gaelic Games, Tennis, Golf and more, for whom “Effort is Equal” and with whom we have ambitious plans to extend the reach of this annual celebration of the Women who are making a difference.

They are drawn as before from the worlds of leadership, partnership, storytelling and performance.

We began this journey in 2013 when challenged that we would never be able to produce a list of twenty Influential Women in Irish Sport. The 20 stretched to 30, then 40 and 50 and it still does not do justice to the talent that is out there.

This year once more, to keep things fresh we will introduce at least 30 per cent of fresh names from last year. That will be the hardest part to have some names replaced but if it was too easy it would be of less value.

The list we will continue to build over the coming weeks is a snapshot of those women who are making a mark on how sport is played, consumed, grown and delivered.

They are part of making the role of women in sport unexceptional by being exceptional in what they do.

Recognition of their contribution is rarely asked for but is fully deserved, and we want your help in identifying those who you feel should be among them.

So, who do you think should be on the list for 2021?

 

 

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