Sunday Independent (Ireland)

Nationwide joy as Tom and Shona get engaged

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Joy is unconfined nationwide. Mary Kennedy’s son Tom Foster got engaged to Aussie beauty Shona McDonagh on June 22. “The date is significan­t because it would have been his granny’s 100th birthday,” Mary, presenter of RTE’s Nationwide, told me referring to her late mum Pauline. “Tom and my mother were very close.”

Tom (31) decorated the kitchen with night-lights, white lights and peonies, and surprised Shona with the proposal. He then took her to Bijou in Rathgar for dinner.

Shona, who came to Ireland in 2011 to do a MSc in Marketing at the Smurfit Business School in Dublin, is “delightful and already part of the family”, said her famous future-mother-in-law. “I’m absolutely delighted for them,” she continued. “Tom and Shona, who are together four years in October, are very good together. I’m mad about her. And, of course, I’m just mad about Tom.”

Mary is attending designer Don O’Neill’s charity soiree in Tralee in two weeks in aid of Recovery Haven Kerry.

“They are a cancer support house offering free counsellin­g and help to cancer patients and their families,” Don told me. “It will be a dinner with dancing in memory of my mom, on Friday, July 20, the eve of Mom’s sixth anniversar­y.”

Mary will be attending with her eldest daughter Eva, whose wedding dress Don designed and made. “Don and Pascal,” Mary said, referring to Don’s husband, Pascal Guillermie, “are family friends. We all know and love them.”

 ??  ?? Happy couple... Tom Foster and Shona McDonagh who got engaged to marry on June 22
Happy couple... Tom Foster and Shona McDonagh who got engaged to marry on June 22

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