North 2016–2019, MEP 2019– Seán Dorgan, General Secretary of Fianna Fáil Brendan Howlin (SPD), Labour Party Teachta Dála Enda Kenny (SPD), Teachta Dála, Taoiseach from 2011 to 2017, Leader of Fine Gael from 2002 to 2017 Conor Lenihan, Fianna Fáil Teachta Dála; former Minister of State Mary Lou McDonald MEP, TD Teachta Dála, Deputy Leader of Sinn Féin since February 2009 Helen McEntee, TD, Fine Gael, Meath-East and Minister of State for Health - Older People Rónán Mullen, former Senator Kathleen O'Meara, former Senator Kathryn Reilly, former Sinn Féin Senator Noel Rock, former Fine Gael TD Brendan Ryan Duncan Smith, Labour TD Sportspeople DCU GAA Ireland international rules football team players Senior inter-county footballers Dublin Cavan Seanie Johnston John Tierney Cork Seán Óg Ó hAilpín Donegal Michael Boyle Michael Murphy Galway Tom Flynn Kildare Seanie Johnston Laois Colm Begley Ross Munnelly Louth Paddy Keenan Mayo Rob Hennelly Conor Mortimer Meath Anthony Moyles Roscommon Cathal Cregg David Keenan Donal Shine Sligo David Kelly Senior inter-county ladies' footballers Mayo Sarah Rowe Senior inter-county hurlers Gaelic handballers Derek Henry Eoin Kennedy men's rugby union internationals Tadhg Furlong Jamie Heaslip Bernard Jackman Marty Moore Trevor Hogan women's rugby union internationals Lindsay Peat men's field hockey internationals Conor Harte David Harte women's field hockey internationals Hannah Matthews Alison Meeke Others Kevin Hunt, Bohemians captain Fionnuala McCormack, European cross country champion Ger McDonnell, reached the summit of Everest in May 2003 Ciara Peelo, Olympic sailor, Beijing 2008 Darren Sutherland, bronze medalist boxer, Beijing Olympic Games, 2008 John Tierney, Ireland Australian rules football international Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, Ireland shinty–hurling international Honorary degree holders (not otherwise listed) Amal Al Qubaisi Jocelyn Bell-Burnell Bill Clinton Brian Cody Wesley Cocker John Coolahan Mary Davis Susan Denham Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill Roddy Doyle John Fitzpatrick Olwen Fouéré Brian Friel David Hammond Charles Haughey Seamus Heaney John Hume Owen Keenan John E. Kelly III Sean Kelly Stanislaus Kennedy Dermot Lane Louis le Brocquy Pearse Lyons Timothy Mahony Seamus Mallon James G. March Martin McAleese Mary McAleese Neil V McCann Margaret MacCurtain John McGahern Paid McGee Peter McVerry George J. Mitchell John Francis Mitchell Stephen Myers Martin Naughton Colm William O'Connell Brian O'Driscoll Brian O'Dwyer Labhrás Ó Murchú Sonia O'Sullivan John Pilger Paul Quigley Tomi Reichental Mary Robinson Tony Scott Jean Kennedy Smith Peter Sutherland Katie Taylor Mother Teresa Patrick A Toole David Trimble Willie Walsh Ernest Walton Maurice Whelan T. K. Whitaker