Moira Aston has served as CEO of Canoeing Ireland since December 2018 and is a highly respected leader across the sporting ecosystem.

Well-regarded among her peers on the Sport Ireland Campus she is one of a trio of female CEO’s in water sports alongside Michelle Carpenter in Rowing and Sarah Keane in Swimming.

This year she reached out to the International Canoe Federation and brought the International Governing Bodies first ever Women’s Symposium to Dublin, staging a two day event that had leaders from around the world come to Ireland.

She has enabled a number of initiatives specifically targeting an increase in female participation and involvement in the sport.

She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Olympic Federation of Ireland the Board of the Meath Local Sports Partnership.

Previously she held senior administrative positions at Athletics Ireland, including as Operations Director. She completed a Masters in Business Administration at UCD Smurfit Business School in 2018.

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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.