MARIA KINSELLA

 

Maria Kinsella is the Co-Chair of the Gaelic Players Association. She took up the position as part of the merger of the Men’s and Women’s Associations into a single body in 2021.

At a time when the integration of the three main governing bodies within Gaelic Games into one is of real and present importance, looking to how it has been achieved by the GPA will provide valuable lessons.

She works as an Audit Manager with PwC in Dublin and still lines out for Dublin Senior Championship finalists Na Fianna.

Kinsella has spoken at our annual Sport for Business Women in Sport Conference and is a strong and intelligent advocate for the players’ voice to be heard as an important part of sporting debate.

See who else has been named on the list alongside Maria Kinsella 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.