Independent News & Media

LionelNashe

From today's Sunday Independent
ON October 1, Ross Hamilton, the son of the late Fr Michael Cleary and his housekeeper Phyllis Hamilton, was involved in an altercation .....It was alleged that he committed an assault ......a very small amount of illegal drugs were found on his person.
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There the matter might have rested except that a sharp-eyed reporter from the Evening Herald noticed that there was something familiar about the address given on the charge sheet.......it was discovered this was also the home of Antonia Leslie, Sunday Independent columnist, socialite and member of the well-known Anglo-Irish Ascendancy family..blah blah blah

Is this news? I don't think so. It should have read "There the matter might have rested except that the Evening Herald was aware that Antonia Leslie, columnist with another INM title Sunday Independent will shortly have an autobiography to flog"

Its a shame that our newspapers don't have higher standards than this.

Latchy

Just read it myself online and makes for good soap opera reading but that's all

Ash.J.Williams

Ok ...this must be the worst article ever written.....
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/arrest-blows-lid-on-rosss-secret-life-with-antonia-2392435.html

my favourite line....

"they have been spotted out together frequently on the Dublin social scene, most frequently at such ritzy venues as The Gypsy Rose and Lillies.

expectationlost

am cringing at priests sons being socialites in ireland

uvox

Cue Antonia and Mac an tSagairt appearing in VIP magazine, on the Late Late Show, and Miriam O'Callaghan's show shortly. They're all at it, not just the Sindo.

uvox

Right on cure: Antonia Leslie and sibling on Mrs Steve Carson's show Miriam Meets this morning.