The President, Mrs McAleese, and the Nobel laureate poet Dr Seamus Heaney were confirmed honorary fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, yesterday at a special ceremony in the college.
The announcement of new fellows and scholars was made by the Provost, Dr Thomas Mitchell, surrounded by the board of the college in full academic gowns and caps on the steps of the public theatre in Front Square.
The ceremony one of the oldest and most colourful in Trinity College is part of the annual Trinity Week, in which special events are organised both by the college and the student body.
The following were elected to fellowship: Frederick Richard Falkiner, Ailbhe Noirin Maire Ni Chasaide, Stephen John Matterson, Padraig Cunningham, Hilary Delany, Maureen JunkerKenny, Judith Margaret Mossman, Patrick John Prendergast, Sean Duffy.
Elected to professorial fellowship was Dennis Kennedy.
Those elected to scholarship were: Psychology Catherine Curran; Natural Sciences Olwyn Menzies, Benjamin Timothy Phalan, Eddie Leonard Myers, Catherine Ann Walsh; Pharmacy
David Coughlan, Enda Phelan; Management Science and Information Systems Studies Brian McSweeney.
Computer Science Morgan Brickley, Kevin Paschal Dunne; Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies Niamh Maire MacDonagh, Deirdre Brennan, Michael McMahon; English Studies Paris Elizabeth O'Donnell; Bachelor in Laws Ailbhe O'Neill; Occupational Therapy Bethan Collins; Medicine Andrew William Byrne.
Dental Science Lorna Mary Dobbyn, Gavin John Convey, Brega Mary Howley, Siobhan Elizabeth Murray; Engineering Jamie Goggins, David Eadie, Christopher Raymond Fairclough; Two-subject Moderateship (Mathematics and Psychology) Robert Cuffe, (English and History) Heather Suzanne Jones, (French and German) Karen Deirdre Kirke, (Economics and Mathematics) Paul Bartholomew Scanlon, (French and Spanish) Rosalind Ann Fletcher, (English and Greek A) Frieda Marie Klotz, (Economics and Geography) Mairead Aine Roche.
Mathematics Barry John Gahan, John Paul Loane; Theoretical Physics David Brian Jennings, Donal O'Connell, Eoin Pol Proinsias O Colgain, Donal Richard McAuliffe, Nicholas Corcoran; Bachelor in Laws and French
Niamh Aine Connolly; Philosophy and Political Science Emmet Coldrick; Moderatorship in Natural Sciences: Human Genetics Keara Lane.