Aidan McCullen

Aidan McCullen
Full name	Aidan McCullen
Date of birth	January 5, 1977 (age 47)
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight	244 lb (111 kg; 17.4 st)
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	back rower
Senior career
Years	Team
1998-99; 2001-05; 2005-06; 2006-08	US Dax; Leinster Rugby; Toulouse; London Irish
International career
Years	Team
2003	Ireland

Aidan McCullen (born January 5, 1977) is a retired Ireland national rugby union team player. He played as a back rower, who can play 6, 7 or 8 and has also played for Leinster at second row. He has played for the Ireland sevens side in many competitions including Hong Kong Sevens and the Rugby World Cup Sevens. He is one of Ireland's most capped sevens players, renowned for his ball handling ability.

When he played for US Dax, he was the youngest forward in the French first division in 1999 as a 20-year-old. ^{[citation needed]}

McCullen has 20 European cup caps. He has over 60 caps for Leinster and was rewarded an international 15s cap for the game between Ireland and Samoa on June 20, 2003. His international progress was halted by injury, before he was sought out and signed by Toulouse. In Toulouse McCullen was in the starting team keeping both Isitola Maka and Yannick Nyanga out of the team. His success at Toulouse was once again thwarted by injury. Then he joined London Irish until 2008. McCullen returned to Ireland and coached his club side Lansdowne back to division one as a forwards player/coach.

McCullen commentates for Setanta Sports (Now Eir Sports) covering the French Top 14 and Schools Rugby.

He was also an accomplished writer with Emerald Rugby Magazine, where his articles embody both intelligence and sporting experience.

McCullen set up and developed the digital infrastructure for Irish entrepreneur Denis O'Briens Communicorp Group, where he was known for pioneering and developing cross platform sales solutions and leading media innovation.

McCullen followed up the world's first iPoll ^[1] with his innovation Radio You Can Read, an iPad magazine for the radio station Newstalk 106-108.^[2]

Aidan McCullen was recruited by Ireland's national broadcaster RTÉ as head of Innovation in January 2016.^[3]

McCullen has set up and presents a weekly radio show called the Innovation show, which focusses is a weekly look at various themes from the world of innovation, digital disruption, social media, virtual reality, IoT and transforming business models.

The show is available on Soundcloud,^[4] iTunes,^[5] TuneIn^[6] and broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 extra every Saturday at 3pm and Tuesdays at 7am and 3pm. You can also find the show on www.theinnovationshow.io.^[7]

He has an interesting weekly blog available on medium.com called The Thursday Thought.

In September 2016 McCullen was headhunted by International Think Tank www.Katawave.com. Katawave is a business imagination studio, which boasts clients such as Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer.^[8]

External links

References

[1] ttp://www.digitaltimes.ie/mobile-app/newstalks-iphone-users-voting-yes-in-the-referendum/

[2] ttp://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/media-and-marketing/newstalk-launches-radio-you-can-read-1.1402943

[3] ttp://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/news/top-rte-role-for-exrugby-star-34396291.html

[4] ttps://soundcloud.com/theinnovationshow

[5] ttps://itunes.apple.com/ie/podcast/the-innovation-show/id1148455669?mt=2

[6] ttp://tunein.com/radio/The-Innovation-Show-p910020/

[7] ttp://www.theinnovationshow.io

[8] ttp://katawave.com/

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