The National University of Ireland, Galway, will confer an honorary doctorate in laws on the Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Revd John Neill, on Friday 27 June 2003 in University College, Galway.

The honorary LL.D degree will be conferred by the Chancellor of the University, Dr Garret Fitzgerald. Archbishop Neill will be presented to the Chancellor by Dr Keith Warnock from the School of Accountancy & Finance.

Also being honoured will be Dr Kader Asmal, the civil rights activist and South African politician, the Revd Fr Andrew Greeley, the American writer and sociologist, Brid Rogers, the SDLP politician and former Minister for Agriculture in Northern Ireland, and businessman Joseph Higgins from the engineering industry.