Biography
Mullins was born in Dublin in 1954. He received his primary and secondary education in Dublin before later attending Thomond College in Limerick. Here Mullins completed a Bachelor of Arts in physical education and Irish.
Mullins subsequently returned to Dublin where he secured a teaching job in Greendale Community School in Kilbarrack on the north side of the city. Here he taught his degree subjects as well history and geography. In 1980 he took eighteen months leave of absence from Greendale to complete a Master of Arts in athletics administration at New York University.
When Mullins returned from the United States he resumed his teaching post at Greendale and stayed there until 1991. That year he was appointed principal of the secondary school in Carndonagh, County Donegal.
Mullins returned to Dublin in 2000 to take up his role as UCD Director of Sport.
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