Maura Derrane stepped back from the Today show with Daithi O'Se two year ago, and now the mother-of-one admits it wasn't a decision she wanted to make, ...
You have to work a bit harder at it,” she told the Sunday Independent. “You forget about yourself, you lose yourself, and I’m guilty of losing myself. Maura said it wasn’t something she “wanted” to do, but she felt she had “no choice but to prioritise family” adding: “If the show was not in Cork, there’s no way I would have stepped back”.
Beloved TV presenter Maura Derrane has admitted she 'lost a bit' of herself after becoming a mother as she opened up about motherhood.
You have to work a bit harder at it. ‘You forget about yourself, you lose yourself, and I’m guilty of losing myself. Maura and her husband John Deasy moved from Waterford to Dublin in 2020, which made it extremely difficult to commute to the Today Show studio in Cork during the height of the pandemic.