As a young athlete pounding the pavements Derval O’Rourke was driven by a singular dream of Olympic glory. But the three time Olympian says she could never have envisioned that her running would see her hurtling towards a career as a broadcaster, author and reality television star. ‘Ten years ago if you had told me I would have had these television gigs and my own business I would have said you were mad.
It is definitely the road not taken. It feels very funny. ‘I do the television that I really care about on the Olympics and the Europeans.
Even if I wasn’t sitting in an RTÉ studio I would be sitting on my couch watching it and talking about it. So it basically facilitates my hobby.
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