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'PARADIGM SHIFT': Megan Rapinoe of the US speaks to members of the media at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. Pic: Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images
Paul Rouse’s great new book Sport in Modern Ireland provides some insight into the fun they have during Rouser’s history classes at UCD.
In a chapter on the traditional lack of morality and “appalling ethical behaviour” of sports administrations, with emphasis on their flippant attitude towards human rights and tendency to cosy up to despots, Paul writes: “When I teach this aspect of modern sports history to my students in UCD, I use the work of the French sociologist and philosopher, Jean-Marie Brohm, who taught for many decades at the University of Montpellier.
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