Eddie O'Sullivan
| Date of birth | 21 November 1958 | ||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Youghal, County Cork, Ireland | ||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) | ||||||||||||
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Eddie O'Sullivan (born 21 November 1958) is an Irish rugby union coach, player (wing & fly-half) and a former gaelic footballer. He is a former head coach of the United States national rugby union team and of the Ireland national rugby union team. He was head coach of Biarritz Olympique, who play in the second tier of France, until October 2015.
O'Sullivan was born in Youghal, Cork, Ireland. After attending the Christian Brothers school in the town, he graduated from Thomond College, which a decade later became part of the University of Limerick.
O'Sullivan played for the Garryowen Football Club during the 1970s and 1980s at fly-half and wing, while teaching physical education, maths, and science in Mountbellew, County Galway. He played for Munster between 1983 and 1986 on the wing and got capped for Ireland A in 1984. He also played Gaelic Football. In 1982, he played corner forward on the Mountbellew Moylough Gaelic football team. He was fitness advisor to the Galway Senior Football Team, managed by John O'Mahony, which won two All-Ireland Senior Football Titles in 1998 and 2001.
He started his coaching career at Monivea Rugby Club in north-east Galway in the early 1980's while still a teacher. He worked as a Development Officer for the Irish Rugby Football Union between 1988 and 1991. During that time and up until 1992, he was the Fitness Advisor to the Irish Rugby Team, under Head Coach Ciaran Fitzgerald. He followed this with spells coaching at Blackrock College, (first as Assistant, then as Head Coach) Connacht as Assistant Coach and Head Coach between 1992 and 1996 and the Irish Under-21 side. The Under-21 side won the 1996 Triple Crown, beating Clive Woodward's England. Between 1997 and 1999, while working in the USA he continued to coach the Buccaneers Rugby Club in Connacht, who won promotion from Division 3 to Division 1 of the All-Ireland League and reaching the Top 4 of the tournament in their 1st season in Division 1.
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