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标题：Fall could cripple Euro star Fionnuala's career
作者：PATRICK CLANCY
期刊名称：Sunday Mirror
印刷版ISSN：0956-8077
出版年度：1996
卷号：Jan 28, 1996
出版社：Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd.

Fall could cripple Euro star Fionnuala's career

PATRICK CLANCY

EUROVISION winner Fionnuala Sherry may miss her big Hollywood break after fracturing her shoulder in a fall.

The violinist, who underwent emergency surgery yesterday, was due to give a showcase performance for some of the world's top recording industry bosses in Los Angeles next month.

But the two fractures in her left shoulder have forced the 33- year-old song contest star to put her career on hold.

Less than an hour before her operation at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital, Fionnuala said: "This is a real bummer. The pain is excruciating.

"But I will do physio and any other exercises I'm given 24 hours a day if I have to. I'm determined to make a full recovery. When you want something badly enough it will happen." Fionnuala broke her shoulder when she fell down the stairs at her home in Leopardstown, Dublin, last Thursday.

That was less than 24 hours after she returned early from a recording session in Norway to recover from a flu bug.

Fionnuala was planning a rest so she would be fully fit for a US tour, which was due to start in two weeks.

She said: "I fainted at the top of the stairs and fell down. When I came to, the pain was unbearable. I crawled to my mobile phone and called my mother." Fionnuala was taken by ambulance to St Vincents Hospital and later transferred to Beaumont for yesterday's op by top surgeon James Colville.

Fionnuala said: "I had to have the best. My future is at stake here. If the bone realignment is a fracture of a millimetre out it could affect my career."

She added: "I'm so scared."

Blonde Fionnuala left her job as first violinist with the RTE Concert Orchestra to perform for Norway in the Eurovision contest in Dublin last May.

Her two-minute violin solo was the main feature of the winning entry Nocturne.

Fionnuala's passionate performance was said to have done the same for violin playing as Riverdance did for Irish dancing - put sex appeal into it.