One of America’s most powerful businesswomen is to receive an honorary doctorate at University College Cork.

It was all SO Graham Norton yesterday — the other three recipients of honorary degrees at University College Cork barely got in a look-in as the Bandon man finally got the scroll-in-a-roll his mother had long yearned for.

There is an old story about how people treasure being the recipient of an honour, and even if it may not be entirely true, it will serve to make a point.