Amongst a number of outstanding people who will be conferred with honorary degrees by the National University of Ireland on Thursday 10 April 2003, will be the former Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Reverend Dr Walton Empey, and the Hon. Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness, Supreme Court Judge and Chancellor of the United Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough.

Three others will be similarly honoured. Historian and broadcaster Brian Farrell, Sr Stanilaus Kennedy, founder of Focus Ireland and campaigner for the socially vulnerable, and disability rights activist and artist, Mary Duffy, who paints with her feet.

The ceremony will take place in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham and the degrees will be conferred by Dr Garrett Fitzgerald, Chancellor of the National University.