RTE’s Maura Derrane suffers nasty fall while on the way to radio show

RTE star Maura Derrane has revealed she broke her wrist while on her way to fill in for Oliver Callan on his radio show.

Maura revealed she took a painful tumble in her home just before she left for work, but made her way into RTE and hosted the Radio 1 show as normal on Monday morning.

But when she arrived at the radio show, she had to take painkillers and put an ice pack on her wrist, before taking herself to the doctors for an assessment.

She told her followers on social media she went to the VHI Swiftcare Clinic in Carrigmines, where they told her she had broken her wrist in two places.

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She said: “I fell this morning in the house on the way out to do the radio show. I tripped, came down on my had on my wrist. Ran into work put an ice pack on it, took a few painkillers and did the show.

“It was bad afterwards and I felt like I probably need to sort it out, especially since I am due to go away on Thursday.”

Posting a video to social media, Maura explained “I’ve two fractures on my wrist,” and showed her securely strapped wrist brace.

Sharing how she suffered the break, she said it was a simple accident that could have happened to anyone and joked that she was having a “lovely” start to her summer.

“It just shows you how easy it is. It was the simplest trip. I just slid in my heels, came downstairs, turned a corner and fell down. I didn’t think I’d broken it, I really didn’t.

“I thought I basically maybe bruised it or that I had maybe a small injury, but I didn’t know that I had actually have two fractures. Not one but two, yeah that’s great. A lovely start to the summer!”

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