MIRIAM MALONE

 

Miriam Malone is the CEO of Paralympics Ireland and this year played a crucial role in the bounce-back of sport and society by overseeing the delivery of another Team Ireland winning performance at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.

It is right that the athletes take all the credit for their performances at the highest levels of world sport but in a year where the logistics of even getting there were being created ‘on the fly’ in an ever-changing pandemic environment. they owe more than they will ever fully know to the administrators that enabled them to compete.

That this was the first Games which Malone had overseen made her role even more impressive though she had learned well from her first major job in the new role to execute the 2018 Allianz European Para Swimming Championships in Dublin in 2018.

She joined Paralympics Ireland the year before from her previous position as Director of Business Partnerships at the FAI.

In 2019 she prepared a seven-year strategy for Paralympic Sport focused on the athletes and with the aim of Ireland becoming a Top 3 per capita nation at the Paris Games in 2024.

Malone began her lifelong career in sport working in San Francisco before returning to Ireland to work with Special Olympics Ireland. In 2004 She set up the first Kilkenny Sports Partnership and then in 2006 she joined the FAI in Dublin working across grassroots and then into business partnerships.

 

 

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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 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.

We will start to publish the first of this year’s list on Sport for Business next week, and share them for all across social media in parallel.

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

 

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