Possible Clues:

• For a memorable time on island in Donegal lose track of one of them online?
• Redirect, as a conversation
• Deflect from a plan
• For a memorable time on island in Donegal lose track of one of them from the station
• Cause to run off the tracks
• Go off track?
• Turns up, storyteller and writer divert from normal course
• Scupper (plans)
• Thwart, as plans
• Throw a monkey wrench into