Addressing her first AGM, after taking up the role eight weeks ago, she said the big takeaway from this meeting should to be encourage more people to support the Women’s game.

“It is just not good enough,” considering the tickets were priced at only €15, said Keane. Her appeal followed the announcement that a new sponsor for the Ireland Women’s team - an Irish company - would be revealed next week.

The Ireland Women have a T20 tri-series against West Indies and Pakistan at Clontarf, starting on May 28 – although the opening match does clash with the second day of the Men’s Test match against New Zealand at Stormont.

The other three home Women’s internationals are one-day internationals against West Indies in Bready on July 10, 12 and 15.

Keane described her first couple of months as a “baptism of fire” and admitted there have been inefficiencies and waste, not enough investment in the Pathway programme, “which is vital for our future success” and there are “big problems” with the company’s infrastructure, “which we will go to the government about”.

The new CEO is still meeting the provincial union leaders and is expecting “hard talks”.

A new Men’s World Test Championship, to include Ireland, is also expected to be confirmed at the ICC annual conference in Edinburgh in July and the CI board will then determine the optimum model for Ireland across the three formats. Ireland can expect to play six Tests a year in the WTC, likely to be the minimum to take part.