Working Life: It’s a total cliché, but I love my job

Dr Órla Walsh, consultant paediatrician with a special interest in adolescent medicine, Children’s Health Ireland (CHI)

Dr Órla Walsh, consultant paediatrician with a special interest in adolescent medicine, Children’s Health Ireland. (CHI) Photograph: Moya Nolan

7.30am

The dream is that I would get to wake my two sleepy children, Eoghan (4) and Aoibh (2), but the reality is that I am normally roused by them, with demands for ‘Mammy’s bed’ or ‘porridge’.