at UCD for several years Alan Dukes Martin Fraser Dermot Gallagher, Secretary-General of the Department of Foreign Affairs Aideen Hayden former Irish Labour Party politician Joe Higgins, former Socialist Party TD & MEP Justin Keating Vincent Keaveny Lawyer and 693rd Lord Mayor of London Hugh Kennedy Noël A. Kinsella, 46th Speaker of the Senate of Canada Michael Kitt Brian Lenihan Thomas MacDonagh Charlie McCreevy; former European Commissioner for Internal Market & Services Alasdair McDonnell former SDLP leader and MP for Belfast South Michael McDowell; former Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform Mairead McGuinness Irish politician serving as the European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and the Capital Markets Union Paul Murphy TD for Dublin South West, former MEP John L. Murray Michael Noonan Éamon Ó Cuív Willie O'Dea Kevin O'Higgins Mary O'Rourke Nóirín O'Sullivan Nora Owen Patrick Pearse Ruairi Quinn Neale Richmond James Ryan Francis Skeffington Eóin Tennyson; Alliance Party MLA for Upper Bann Michael Woods Robert Watt (Irish civil servant) Legal Caoilfhionn Gallagher barrister Paul Gallagher, former Attorney General Dermot Gleeson barrister Anthony J. Hederman Ronan Keane Hugh Kennedy, first Chief Justice of the State Cecil Lavery John L. Murray Academia Thom Brooks, philosopher and legal academic Remi Chandran, researcher Anthony Clare, psychiatrist John Coakley, political scientist Arthur W. Conway, physicist Patrick Cosgrave, historian Deirdre Curtin, lawyer James Dooge, engineer Owen Dudley Edwards, historian Robert Dudley Edwards, historian Yvonne Farrell architect and academic John D. FitzGerald, economist Noel Fitzpatrick, veterinarian Roy C. Geary, statistician Aoife Gowen, researcher Dennis Jennings (Internet pioneer) Thomas Kettle, economist John Francis Leader, psychologist Eoin MacNeill, scholar J. A. McClelland, physicist Páid McGee, psychologist Shelley McNamara architect and academic Thomas Preston, physicist Frances P. Ruane, economist Martin J. Tobin Irish-American critical care physician, pulmonologist Desmond Williams, historian Engineers Thomas McLaughlin, key player in the construction of the Ardnacrusha power plant, the largest hydroelectric plant in the world when constructed Eddie O'Connor, founder of Mainstream Renewable Energy William F. Roe, electrical engineer; led the rural electrification scheme in Ireland J.O.(Seán) Scanlan, circuit theory; gold medalist of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Arts Joanne McNally, comedian Consolata Boyle, costume designer Paul Brady Niall Breslin, musician Gabriel Byrne Graham Cantwell Benjamin Cleary, Oscar winner Cyril Cusack Barbara Dawson, director of Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin Foil Arms and Hog, Irish sketch comedy group. Brendan Gleeson Róisín Heneghan, architect and designer Amy Huberman Neil Jordan,