Chin up time as London calls

A lot of the time people don’t know it’s her. They just think she looks a lot like “that athlete”.

Why would Derval O’Rourke be working as a receptionist at the vet clinic the Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have, out in Rathfarnam?

But then some of them do a doubletake. And some of them has asked, “Jesus, are things that bad with the running that you have to work here?”

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