Heather Boyle is the Communications and Athletes Commision Lead at the Olympic Federation of Ireland.

She is leading a team of communications professionals to bring all the stories of the athletes and the games to life in advance of Paris 2024 and through the games itself.

She joined the OFI in 2018 after nine years working with Cycling Ireland including at the Rio Games and six years prior to that as an international rowere on the Irish team.

She had worked in Bank of Ireland while pursuing her own sporting dreams in the boat, after graduating from her native University of Galway in English, Sociology and Politics.

She returned to education to pursue a Masters in Equality Studies at UCD, focusing on why fewer women than men took part in sport. Now she will once again be front and centre stage at the most egalitarian celebration of sport there is.

She is the 18th new name on our list for 2023.

See who else has been named on the list alongside Heather Boyle by clicking on the image below.

 

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See who else has been included so far on the list for 2023

 

 

This is the 11th 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 2023.

We are proud to publish the list in partnership 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 step up again, raising the number of new entrants to at least 40 percent of fresh names from last year.

It 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.Â