NORA STAPLETON

 

Nora Stapleton is the Women in Sport Lead at Sport Ireland.

She works across the full range of sporting bodies running specific programmes aimed at encouraging women’s involvement in sport at every level.

She was appointed to the role when it was first created in April 2019, having previously worked as the Women’s Rugby Development Officer with the Irish Rugby Football Union.

She was an international player with Ireland for seven years up until our hosting of the Women’s Rugby World Cup in 2017.

She won an Intermediate All Ireland title with Donegal in Ladies Football in 2010 and is a three-time Women’s FAI Cup Final winner with UCD. She also worked as a Games Promotion Officer with Balinteer St Johns GAA club in Dublin.

She switched to Rugby after playing a Tag competition with her employer at the time, Bank of Ireland. She won 50 caps in total and played in the World Cup hosted on Irish soil in 2017.

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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.