LISA FALLON

 

Lisa Fallon stepped down as the first Irish woman to be Head Coach of an English Championship Football Team during the first year of Covid but has since gone from strength to strength in terms of influence.

She became the first female Head Coach of a League of Ireland Men’s team with Galway United leading them to second place in the SSE Airtricity First Division in 2021.

An offer to join FIFA’s High-Performance Department was too good to turn down and she has been there throughout 2022, including in the Middle East for the FIFA World Cup Finals.

She has worked with the All Ireland Winning Dublin Gaelic Footballers under Jim Gavin and the Northern Ireland Senior men’s Football team under Michael O’Neill as well as appearing regularly as a highly regarded analyst on RTÉ’s football coverage.

She writes an influential column in the Irish Times and is a non-executive Board Member of Paralympics Ireland as well as sitting on the Gender Equality Commission of the Olympic Federation of Ireland.

See who else has joined Lisa on the 2022 list 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 percent 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.