KELLIE HARRINGTON

 

Kellie Harrington is one of Ireland’s most successful and also most popular sporting stars.

Gold at the Tokyo Olympics, Gold at World Championship level, Gold, Silver, and Bronze at different European Championships right up to October 2022 is a record of outstanding achievement and her dream is to defend her Lightweight Olympic title in Paris in 2024.

Her “fluffy pigeons” and “Hakuna Matata” make her interviewing gold as well and her genuine empathy with people from her North Inner City Dublin has endeared her to those on and far from Portland Row.

She continues to be an active role model within the local area working as an ambassador with Dublin City Council’s Sports Partnership, as well as for Permanent TSB as Team Ireland’s principal commercial partner.

She is important because she reaches out to groups of young girls, and boys, with the hope that they can grow up to be like her, if not in the boxing ring then in whatever they want to turn their hand to.

See who else has been named on the list alongside Kellie Harrington by clicking on the image below.
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This is the tenth edition of our Sport for Business listing of 50 Women of Influence in Irish Sport.

Read more about the list and nominate who you think should be a part of it in 2022.

We are proud to do so again this year with AIG, an organisation that has pledged its commitment to equality in its 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.

This year’s list will be 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.