There are only a few days left now to enter for the Irish Sport Industry Awards.

A highlight of the sports awards calendar, the event brings together a cross-section of the sports sector and key stakeholders in sport.

The awards celebrate and reward excellence in the areas of importance that surround sport, while simultaneously highlighting the contribution of sport to the Irish economy.

Among the winners of last year’s Awards were Swim Ireland, Golf Ireland, Output Sports, Irish American Events, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council and Electric Ireland.

Previous winners of the Best Sports Sponsorship Awards include Sky Ireland and the FAI Women’s National Team; Softco for its partnership with Irish Hockey; Lidl for its partnership with Ladies’ Football; and Allianz’s support of Paralympics Ireland.

The Sport industry in Ireland supports 64,000 jobs, stimulates €3.3 billion in household spending, and generates €3.7 billion (GVA) gross value added to the Irish economy.

The award categories celebrated each year are designed to recognise a wide range of aspects of sport from entrepreneurship with Best Sports Businesses (new and existing), sports media coverage with the Jimmy Magee Award for Best Sports Coverage of the Year, good governance and leadership in sport with the leading governing body and local sports partnership initiatives, and the commercial, inclusivity and promotion of sport with Best Sports Sponsorship, Best Inclusivity initiative, Best promotion of Women in Sport, Best Use of Communications platforms, and the much coveted Outstanding Achievement Award.

The entries will be judged by an esteemed judging panel comprising of media, PR, and independent sports industry experts and Chaired by Sport for Business founder and CEO Rob Hartnett. Among the judges named so far are Brenda O’Donnell of Active Disability Ireland, Ciaran Medlar of BDO, Stephen Bradshaw of Close Brothers, Jill Downey of Core, and Hannah Craig of Sport Ireland.

The Jimmy Magee FIS/ASJI Award for Sports Coverage of the Year will be independently adjudicated by the Association of Sports’ Journalists Ireland (ASJI).

Entries can be made here.

 

The Federation of Irish Sport are full members of the Sport for Business community.

The Sport for Business Membership comprises nearly 300 organisations including all the leading sports and sponsors, commercial and state agencies. 

Find out more about joining us today.

Be part of the biggest community of sporting and business organisations in Ireland by becoming a member of Sport for Business and enjoying a host of benefits.

 

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