Derval Orourke: Last News

The Late Late Show is back this week with the largest studio audience since the pandemic first began in March 2020, and luckily for those in attendance, there looks to be a great line up.

Ireland’s Fittest Family was back with a bang as the first episode of series nine saw a contestant smash all previous records on the show.

The Olympic show must go on this year, according to Ireland’s Fittest Family coach Derval O’Rourke, who says it is vital for the athletes themselves but also so women and girls get to see females taking part in sports on TV.

The Ireland’s Fittest Family coaches might be the most competitive people in the country, edged out only by some of the contestants they’re partnered with.

Ireland’s Fittest Family team have enjoyed a ‘surreal’ first day back filming in what they’ve joked feels like an ‘enchanted forest’.They’re heading into season eight of the fitness competition and their return to filming comes ahead of RTÉ announcing the rest of its autumn schedule later this week.It was an early start for Anna Geary, Mairead Ronan and Derval O’Rourke who all shared their excitement on social media as they returned to work with Davy Fitzgerald and Donncha O’Callaghan.Cork GAA legend Anna Geary hopped on her Instagram stories to say: ‘Bright and Early start, ready to go.

A post shared by Jacqui Hurley (@jacquihurley7) on Aug 4, 2020 at 4:02am PDT‘It’s a children’s book sharing the fairytale stories of some of Ireland’s top sportswomen,’ she explained.The sports broadcaster tagged a number of the phenomenal women featured within the pages on her Instagram stories including the likes of Ellen Keane, Derval O’Sullivan, Katie Taylor, Annalise Murphy and more.‘Irish sportswomen have been breaking the mould for a long time,’ the blurb reads. ‘From Maeve Kyle becoming Ireland’s first female Olympian in 1956, to motorsport pioneer Rosemary Smith breaking the land-speed record in 1978.’‘Through the 1990s and 2000s we had world champions in Sonia O’Sullivan, Derval O’Rourke, and Olive Loughnane.