Derval O’Rourke: ‘I don’t ever think I need to be managed, but I did need to be minded’

Derval O’Rourke: ‘I don’t ever think I need to be managed, but I did need to be minded’

Derval O’Rourke recently saw the trailer for the new Rory McIlroy documentary about his Masters victory and there’s a line in it about last year being his 17th attempt to win the green jacket. That line caught Derval. Seventeen chances. She would have loved 17 goes at the holy grail of her sport as opposed to the once-every-four-years shot at an Olympics.