Mary McMorrow is Director of Operations and Company Secretary at Swim Ireland.

She has steadily increased her influence over the years and is now one of the more influential female leaders in Irish Sport.

She is a former Board member of the Federation of Irish sport, a Sport Ireland mentor, currently sitting on the National Swimming Strategy Development Group, Co-Chair of the European Learn to Swim Commission, Swim Ireland Company Secretary, a qualified mediator and recognised by Sport Ireland amongst others as having a significant expertise in Sports governance.

She secured a Masters in Business Administration in 2014 after a first career in merchandising and field support across the FMCG sector.

McMorrow’s influence is subtle but no less powerful for that and she has been nominated for this list from a number of different sources, all recognising that influence comes in many forms.

This is her first year on the list, one of what will be a 40 percent influx of new recognition

See who else has been named on the list alongside Mary McMorrow 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.