Freak Fidget Spinner Injury Forces Actress To Quit Biggest Stage Role Of Her Career

A freak fidget spinner injury has forced a Cork actress to withdraw from her biggest Irish stage role

22 year old Ayoola Smart suffered concussion after she was struck behind the ear, when a child playing with a fidget spinner lost control of it in Wilton Shopping Centre last week     

The Irish Examiner reports that she has been ordered to rest up for a fortnight meaning she can't take up her role in the award winning Futureproof which was to receive it's Irish premiere in the Everyman Theatre as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival

Ayoola, has appeared in BBC’s Holby City and ITV’s Vera, as well as on The Globe stage in Taming of the Shrew.

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