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Deirdre O'Kane on the challenges of bringing her new Sky show to the small screen

RTE 04 Nov 2021
Shelved several times due to lockdown, The Deirdre O'Kane Show debuted on October 17 on Sky Max, and the stand-up star said "it's great to finally have it out there" as it "took ages". During an appearance on RTÉ One's Today she told presenters Dáithí Ó Sé and Maura Derrane.
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Claudia Carroll inspired to write during Fair City days

RTE 21 Oct 2021
Irish author and Fair City star Claudia Carroll has said she was inspired to begin writing back in the long days of filming the RTÉ One soap ... During an appearance on the Today show on RTÉ One, she told presenters Maura Derrane and Dáithí Ó Sé that it all began on Fair City. She said.
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Upfront: ‘Dáithí and myself have a natural chemistry and from day one our TV marriage has worked’ – Maura Derrane

Irish Independent 10 Oct 2021
Maura Derrane is a TV broadcaster and journalist. For the past 10 years she has co-presented RTÉ’s Today with Dáithí Ó Sé. Born on Inis Mór, she lives in Dublin with her husband, John Deasy, a former FG TD, and their son Cal, seven. What were you like growing up?. I was a very quiet child and shy ... I never had that aspiration ... .
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Mid-Life crisis: ‘There was even a pop star on the flight, giving it all the air of the glamorous jet-set days of travel. We’ll probably take it all for granted soon enough but it’s all exciting right now’

Irish Independent 10 Oct 2021
We went away, as anyone does, to find ourselves – or maybe to find ourselves again – to figure out who we are, or to try and remember who we are ... Both of us convinced ourselves we were doing it for the sake of the other ... Read More. Brighid’s Diary ... ‘Dáithí and myself have a natural chemistry and from day one our TV marriage has worked’ – Maura Derrane.
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Daithí Ó Sé on doing another ten years of The Today Show

The Times/The Sunday Times 25 Sep 2021
When he walks on to the show-home set tomorrow, it will mark almost a decade of co-presenting with his “telly wife”, Maura Derrane, from ...
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TV guide: 17 of the best shows to watch this week

The Irish Times 25 Jul 2021
Apparently, Today was one of the most popular shows – almost as big as Calor Kosangas Housewife of the Year – and featured affable hosts Dáithí Ó Sé, Maura Derrane and Sinéad Kennedy beaming into the cottages and shebeens of Ireland back in the days of single-channel TV ... Dáithí Ó Sé, Sinéad Kennedy and Maura Derrane on the set of Today ... Only Connect.
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RTÉ's Today Show Gets a New Signature

RTE 24 Jun 2021
RTÉ One's flagship daytime TV programme Today is heading into its 10th season on air in September and to mark this it teamed up with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra to find new signature music ... Daithí Ó Sé – presenter of Today along with Maura Derrane and Sinead Kennedy – congratulated John.
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Celebs share their Leaving Cert memories: ‘I still break out in a cold sweat thinking about it’

Irish Independent 09 Jun 2021
“My dad always left for work always before I went to school and he wrote me a note on the old phone message pad ... I loved that from my dad,” she said ... RTÉ presenter Maura Derrane told Independent.ie that what she remembers most from her Leaving Cert is frantically cramming to try and make up some lost time ... I will be forever grateful to them for that.
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Christy Dignam shares the life lesson we can never stop learning

RTE 31 May 2021
Aslan's Christy Dignam once again displayed his national treasure status on RTÉ One's Today on Friday as he shared the wisdom that gets him through the day ... When the frontman joined hosts Maura Derrane and Dáithí Ó Sé on the final show of the current season of Today on Friday, he was asked ... .
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Phil Coulter credits Luke Kelly with inspiring him to write 'deeply personal' song

RTE 27 May 2021
The Derry-born musician, songwriter and producer talked to presenter Maura Derrane about his memoir Bruised, Never Broken, which is now available in audio-book form on Audible, and spoke about the inspiration behind his famous song Scorn Not His Simplicity ... Derrane played a video ...
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Maura Derrane: "We're a very self-sufficient kind of family"

RTE 26 May 2021
As she looks forward to getting back to her beloved Inis Mór, Maura Derrane tells Claire O'Mahony about presenting the Today show during the pandemic and rediscovering the joys of cycling. TV presenter Maura Derrane has always had a grá for travel ... Island life, as Maura presents it, sounds idyllic.
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‘I think he’s going to work in TV, he loves talking to the camera’ – Today’s Maura on her son Cal (7)

Irish Independent 17 May 2021
As the son of an RTÉ presenter and a former politician, it’s little wonder that Maura Derrane’s son Cal (7) is a chip off the old block ... “I couldn’t stop laughing. I was like, ‘OK, no problem’.” ... “He did say to me last year, ‘I could go to Cork with you and then it could be called ‘Today with Maura and Dáithí and Cal’. “It was so funny ... .
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Maura Derrane oozes glamour in white vintage-inspired gúna

RTE 14 May 2021
As one of the faces of Today With Maura and Dáithí, Maura Derrane is well used to dressing up and getting glam for the cameras ... Whether it's lavender and white polka dot, rusty florals or magenta ruffles, Maura has been dazzling viewers the past few weeks.
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Emer O'Neill is radiant in florals as she co-hosts Today Show

RTE 11 May 2021
Today with Maura and Dáithí has seen a bevy of charming co-hosts take the seat while ... Now, she's stepping into new territory as she fills in for Sinéad, alongside other co-hosts Rachel Allen, Bláthnaid Treacy and of course Maura Derrane.
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If you think numbers are getting several times harder to figure out, simply apply the multiplier effect

Irish Independent 08 May 2021
We were speaking about a neighbour who caused his share of bother. The multiplier effect was brought in immediately. “He’s as good as two men,” I said, facetiously ... I have only a few weeks left as a TV star on the Today show with Dáithí and Maura Derrane ... Maura spotted my error, as usual, and said it was a jackdaw that was resting on the man’s head ... .
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