ÁINE Power sits at the top table at the Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI). Growing up in Gowran, Co Kilkenny, she was aware of horse sport, but did not expect to end up where she is, as the Executive Director of Sport and Games at the international governing body for equestrian sports.

She left Ireland in 2010 “for a year” to complete a sports management masters in Switzerland, the place she now calls home, and has experienced four Olympic Games across two sports - boxing and equestrian.