Maura Derrane was left stunned over the weekend after her journey back to Galway took a ‘not so tranquil’ turn.
The Today Show presenter and her son Cal had enjoyed some time in her native of Galway before heading back to Dublin, where the family is now based.
The Inis Mór native shares one son, Cal, with her husband John Deasy.
Heading to Galway over the weekend, Maura opted to forgo the car and travelled via City Link, taking to Instagram to share a picture of a peaceful Cal drawing during the bus trip back to Dublin.
‘Cal working on his drawings on @citylinkireland back from Galway,’ Maura wrote, ‘Sometimes its good not to have the car.’
Unfortunately, the bus journey took a turn when the mother and son met a fellow bus passenger, who Maura branded ‘rude.’
The man took a dislike to Maura and Cal engaging in a conversation during their bus trip, and seemed quick to tell them to ‘shut up.’
Maura regaled the ordeal online, writing: ‘Our pleasant journey has suddenly become not so tranquil after all with this horribly rude American man telling us to shut up.
‘Since when are you not allowed to have a conversation with your child on a bus! #rudepeople.’
Maura and her family have been based in Dublin since 2020, having previously been settled in the seaside area of Dungarvan, County Waterford.
The move came after John wrapped up his time as a TD for the Waterford constituency.
Speaking to RSVP Live following the move, Maura explained that it helped with their stability, and meant she wasn’t ‘hopping off the road to get home to a minder’ after work.
Maura and John have been married since 2005. Their son, Cal, was born in May 2014, with Maura regularly giving glimpse into mum-life.
Gaelgoir Maura is a veteran in Irish TV, with a career spanning nearly 30 years across journalism and TV presenting.
She also tried her hand at theatre acting, previously sharing a throwback to her acting days in the mid-90s.
Sharing a cut-out from a newspaper article about her playing the ‘leading lady’ role, Maura revealed that she turned to stage acting to combat her fear of public speaking and cameras.
‘I had just started working on television at the time, but had such a fear of cameras and public speaking that I had decided I had to do something to get over it,’ she shared in 2024.
