{"id":112784,"date":"2025-10-10T06:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112784\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:31:09","slug":"derval-orourke-i-almost-needed-a-performance-review-of-the-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/112784\/","title":{"rendered":"Derval O\u2019Rourke: \u2018I almost needed a performance review of the birth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The former Olympian on her record-breaking career, finding a work-life balance and how having kids was the biggest change and transition in her life\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Derval O\u2019Rourke: \u2018I think the greatest thing I underestimated in life is the change after you have kids\u2019. Photo: Joleen Cronin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8a8ee95f-b02c-4577-b7c8-9b4be72c7dea.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Derval O\u2019Rourke: \u2018I think the greatest thing I underestimated in life is the change after you have kids\u2019. Photo: Joleen Cronin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Olympian Derval O\u2019Rourke relaxes in her home office after a busy few weeks. I speak to her days after she has finished presenting the World Athletic Championships on RT\u00c9. It was hectic: long days and late nights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But there is a deep sense of satisfaction. She is pleased that athletics is getting the airtime it deserves. \u201cThe last RT\u00c9 did that extensive coverage was in 1995,\u201d the former world indoor champion sprint hurdler says. \u201cWhen it comes to athletics, you can feel really defensive of it\u2026 all the sports are fighting for positions and athletics just dropped off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Olympian on her record-breaking career, finding a work-life balance and how having kids was the biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[69817,18,19,17,2119,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-112784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-derval-orourke","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kirsty-blake-knox","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}