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Aran Island girl Maura Derrane on meeting Dolores O’Riordan in her back garden

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She may be one of Ireland’s top broadcasters but Maura Derrane’s roots couldn’t be further from the glamour of showbiz. The RTÉ Today host grew up in the Aran Islands on a strip of land ‘nine miles long by two miles wide’ with her parents and sisters Roisín, Rita and Barbara.

While her world back then was considerably ‘smaller,’ there was always something happening and she and her siblings managed to find ways to pass the time by fooling tourists into parting ways with their money!

The innovative sisters would sell stones and seashells from the beach to tourists and Maura tells EVOKE they used to make loads of money from their endeavours.

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