Limerick-born broadcaster Terry Wogan was honoured by Britain's Queen Elizabeth at a lavish ceremony in Buckingham Palace, London today.
Wogan with his OBE outside Buckingham Palace today.
Wogan was given an honorary knighthood in the Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to broadcasting, Buckingham Palace said.
The BBC veteran has been a regular feature on British radio and television for four decades.
He will now be able to call himself "Sir Terry" because he was born before 1949.
Fellow countryman Bob Geldof, given a honorary knighthood in 1986, cannot refer to himself as "Sir Bob".
Buckingham Palace said it was a legal quirk that allowed Irish citizens born before 1949 to use the title.
"Her Majesty said she had been listening to the programme," said Wogan, whose BBC 2 show attracts up to eight million listeners each day. "She is one of Terry's Old Geezers (TOGs), although anybody who had the nerve to call her that would be very, very foolish indeed," Wogan joked with reporters outside Buckingham Palace.