Mark O'Sullivan PhD
@markstkhlm.bsky.social
Associate professor Norwegian School of Sport Sciences.
Blog: https://footblogball.wordpress.com/
Music https://themightyquark.bandcamp.com/album/the-mighty-quark-presents-the-king-syndrome-sound
Blog: https://footblogball.wordpress.com/
Music https://themightyquark.bandcamp.com/album/the-mighty-quark-presents-the-king-syndrome-sound
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Reconceptualising Constructive Alignment within the epistemological distinction of ways of knowing in a higher education coach development course module
The professional education of coaches, coach developers and academics is a pressing challenge for national governing bodies and educational institutions. Central to this challenge is the cultivatio...
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With new ways of understanding coaching, we need new ways of educating and developing coaches. Our new article is out today in Physical Education & Sport Pedagogy
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Hungary sick as a Parrot
November 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Hungary sick as a Parrot
Released 45 years ago today
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Visage - Fade To Grey
YouTube video by VisageVEVO
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November 14, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Released 45 years ago today
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November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Ons 12e nov är det specialvisning av filmen "Small Things Like These", som handlar om en man som upptäcker de fruktansvärda förhållanden för kvinnor på ett irländskt barnhem.
Efter filmen kommer jag att intervjua en man som är uppvuxen i ett sånt barnhem. Starka grejer.
Skicka DM om du vill komma.
Efter filmen kommer jag att intervjua en man som är uppvuxen i ett sånt barnhem. Starka grejer.
Skicka DM om du vill komma.
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Ons 12e nov är det specialvisning av filmen "Small Things Like These", som handlar om en man som upptäcker de fruktansvärda förhållanden för kvinnor på ett irländskt barnhem.
Efter filmen kommer jag att intervjua en man som är uppvuxen i ett sånt barnhem. Starka grejer.
Skicka DM om du vill komma.
Efter filmen kommer jag att intervjua en man som är uppvuxen i ett sånt barnhem. Starka grejer.
Skicka DM om du vill komma.
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Just going to put this out there - I don't have an agent and most media owners wouldn't go near me, but if any national broadcaster wants someone who has had the ethics of journalism tattooed on them from day zero, I'm your man.
At this stage, I'd move home just to contribute to positive change.
At this stage, I'd move home just to contribute to positive change.
I said days ago that it was highly unlikely that Gavin was the first FF client of Yates - he's been sitting there all these years, riding both horses at once, and getting away with it.
Either Irish mainstream media acts now, or it's completely and utterly fucked.
Either Irish mainstream media acts now, or it's completely and utterly fucked.
Matt Cooper asks Niall Collins on air as a finishing question if he has received training from Ivan Yates in the past, expecting a no.
Collins says he has and that he thinks Yates is a fine media trainer & would recommend him.
#IrishPol
Collins says he has and that he thinks Yates is a fine media trainer & would recommend him.
#IrishPol
November 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Just going to put this out there - I don't have an agent and most media owners wouldn't go near me, but if any national broadcaster wants someone who has had the ethics of journalism tattooed on them from day zero, I'm your man.
At this stage, I'd move home just to contribute to positive change.
At this stage, I'd move home just to contribute to positive change.
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I wrote this before the arson attack/attempted murder of IPAS residents, and pretty much everything Harris, Martin and O'Callaghan have done and said since has proved me right - when it comes to the far right, they absolutely have no idea the harm they are doing.
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After presidential fiasco, Fine Gael and Harris choose hate over hope
As many in Ireland celebrated Catherine Connolly’s landslide presidential election victory, Simon Harris and Fine Gael chose dog-whistling about immigration over accountability.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I wrote this before the arson attack/attempted murder of IPAS residents, and pretty much everything Harris, Martin and O'Callaghan have done and said since has proved me right - when it comes to the far right, they absolutely have no idea the harm they are doing.
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philipoconnor.com/after-presid...
Ecological Football- not just to know more (knowledge about) but to know better (knowledge of)
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Ecological Football- not just to know more (knowledge about) but to know better (knowledge of)
Ecological Football- not just to know more but to know better Young players should be active agents in their learning, not just passive executors of pre-defined responses or mere receivers of knowl…
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October 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Ecological Football- not just to know more (knowledge about) but to know better (knowledge of)
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Ekologisk fotboll - inte bara att veta mer (kunskap om), utan att veta bättre (kunskap i)
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Ekologisk fotboll – inte bara att veta mer (kunskap om), utan att veta bättre (kunskap i)
Ekologisk fotboll – inte bara att veta mer (kunskap om), utan att veta bättre (kunskap i) Unga spelare bör vara aktiva i sitt lärande, inte bara passiva mottagare av fördefinierade rörelsemön…
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October 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Ekologisk fotboll - inte bara att veta mer (kunskap om), utan att veta bättre (kunskap i)
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The world cannot wait any longer.
Release the #EpsteinFiles, and let justice take its course.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Release the #EpsteinFiles, and let justice take its course.
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Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre review – a devastating exposé of power, corruption and abuse
Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir lays bare the life-wrecking impact of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes – but it is also the story of how a young woman becomes a hero
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October 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The world cannot wait any longer.
Release the #EpsteinFiles, and let justice take its course.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Release the #EpsteinFiles, and let justice take its course.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.
She said it all.
She said it all.
October 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.
She said it all.
She said it all.
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A month ago, Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson gave me a snarky reply when I asked how he would get the best out of his attack in World Cup qualifying.
They went on to lose 2-0 to Kosovo, tonight they lost 2-0 to Switzerland tonight with one shot on target and are bottom of the group.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They went on to lose 2-0 to Kosovo, tonight they lost 2-0 to Switzerland tonight with one shot on target and are bottom of the group.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
October 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A month ago, Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson gave me a snarky reply when I asked how he would get the best out of his attack in World Cup qualifying.
They went on to lose 2-0 to Kosovo, tonight they lost 2-0 to Switzerland tonight with one shot on target and are bottom of the group.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They went on to lose 2-0 to Kosovo, tonight they lost 2-0 to Switzerland tonight with one shot on target and are bottom of the group.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Two questions for the Irish and Swedish governments - where are Tadhg and Greta, and what are you doing to bring them home?
October 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Two questions for the Irish and Swedish governments - where are Tadhg and Greta, and what are you doing to bring them home?
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If this is not reflected in the actions of our governments, then we can no longer say that we live in democracies.
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If this is not reflected in the actions of our governments, then we can no longer say that we live in democracies.
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Sweden's slide into fascism going as well as can be expected, with a couple of right-wing "think tanks" demanding that the mere suspicion that immigrants are involved in crime could lead to expulsion.
Laying the groundwork in broad daylight.
www.dn.se/debatt/reson...
Laying the groundwork in broad daylight.
www.dn.se/debatt/reson...
DN Debatt. ”Resonemangsäktenskapet Tidö måste bli äkta kärlek”
DN Debatt. Två tankesmedjor: Resonemangsäktenskapet Tidö måste bli äkta kärlek, skriver företrädare för marknadsliberala Timbro och SD-anknutna Oikos.
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September 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Sweden's slide into fascism going as well as can be expected, with a couple of right-wing "think tanks" demanding that the mere suspicion that immigrants are involved in crime could lead to expulsion.
Laying the groundwork in broad daylight.
www.dn.se/debatt/reson...
Laying the groundwork in broad daylight.
www.dn.se/debatt/reson...
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Maybe Robert could set an example by letting one of the many, many, many rental properties he didn't declare on the Dáil register to them.
#gowl #SpeirGorm
#gowl #SpeirGorm
A Minister of State has called on a local authority to prioritise workers when allocating social housing
Workers should get priority for social housing - Minister
A Minister of State has called on a local authority to prioritise workers when allocating social housing.
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September 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Maybe Robert could set an example by letting one of the many, many, many rental properties he didn't declare on the Dáil register to them.
#gowl #SpeirGorm
#gowl #SpeirGorm
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No other story in the media today should come close to this one. This is all that matters, and it is already too late.
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Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds
GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...
www.ohchr.org
September 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
No other story in the media today should come close to this one. This is all that matters, and it is already too late.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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It really, really isn't. Finland solved the problem almost entirely through Housing First years ago, and they told the Irish government how to do it - the Irish govt just ... didn't bother.
This is from 2019:
www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...
This is from 2019:
www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...
September 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
It really, really isn't. Finland solved the problem almost entirely through Housing First years ago, and they told the Irish government how to do it - the Irish govt just ... didn't bother.
This is from 2019:
www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...
This is from 2019:
www.broadsheet.ie/2019/05/01/a...
RIP Robert Redford www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJJm...
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid • Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head • B.J. Thomas
YouTube video by HD Film Tributes
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September 16, 2025 at 2:05 PM
RIP Robert Redford www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJJm...
Blancmange - Waves (Official Video)
YouTube video by Blancmange
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September 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We need to realise how fragile we actually are at moments like these.
The crisis of political violence is our inability to tell ourselves the truth. Top class @philipoconnor.bsky.social
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The crisis of political violence is our inability to tell ourselves the truth. Top class @philipoconnor.bsky.social
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The crisis of political violence is our inability to tell ourselves the truth
Let us be clear. Killed by a sniper’s bullet, the death of Kirk – an objectively awful person who said that LGBTQ+ people should be stoned and that black people and women are inferior – is an awful thing.
philipoconnor.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
We need to realise how fragile we actually are at moments like these.
The crisis of political violence is our inability to tell ourselves the truth. Top class @philipoconnor.bsky.social
philipoconnor.com/the-crisis-o...
The crisis of political violence is our inability to tell ourselves the truth. Top class @philipoconnor.bsky.social
philipoconnor.com/the-crisis-o...
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I asked Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson about Isak and Gyokeres last week - he opened his reply with "May I be a bit arrogant? Have you seen Sweden play when they play together?"
Many times, JDT - in fact, I saw them play together tonight, and they lost 2-0 to Kosovo ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Many times, JDT - in fact, I saw them play together tonight, and they lost 2-0 to Kosovo ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
September 8, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I asked Sweden coach Jon Dahl Tomasson about Isak and Gyokeres last week - he opened his reply with "May I be a bit arrogant? Have you seen Sweden play when they play together?"
Many times, JDT - in fact, I saw them play together tonight, and they lost 2-0 to Kosovo ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Many times, JDT - in fact, I saw them play together tonight, and they lost 2-0 to Kosovo ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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The FAI is not fit for purpose, and arguably never has been.
As long as it continues to treat women as second-class citizens, it should not receive another red cent of taxpayers' money. This has to end.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/f...
As long as it continues to treat women as second-class citizens, it should not receive another red cent of taxpayers' money. This has to end.
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FAI faces explosive allegations in discrimination case by former women’s team boss Eileen Gleeson
An explosive legal case is being taken by Eileen Gleeson against the FAI after she was forced out of the job after 16 months, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
m.independent.ie
August 31, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The FAI is not fit for purpose, and arguably never has been.
As long as it continues to treat women as second-class citizens, it should not receive another red cent of taxpayers' money. This has to end.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/f...
As long as it continues to treat women as second-class citizens, it should not receive another red cent of taxpayers' money. This has to end.
m.independent.ie/irish-news/f...
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Someone needs to go to prison for this.
August 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Someone needs to go to prison for this.
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Today Reuters TV journalism contractor Hussam al-Masri was killed by Israel in an attack on a hospital, and I actually can't believe the words I've just typed.
#STOPKILLINGJOURNALISTS
#STOPKILLINGJOURNALISTS
August 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Today Reuters TV journalism contractor Hussam al-Masri was killed by Israel in an attack on a hospital, and I actually can't believe the words I've just typed.
#STOPKILLINGJOURNALISTS
#STOPKILLINGJOURNALISTS