It’s never too late, says graduate, 82

IT’S all about attitude and it’s never too late.

That’s how graduate Peggy Townend, 82, summed up her experience yesterday as she and six companions were honoured by the President at their graduation ceremony on a sun-kissed island off the south coast.

President Mary McAleese and her husband, Dr Martin McAleese, travelled by ferry from Baltimore to Sherkin Island off West Cork to be the guests of honour at the conferring of awards for the Dublin Institute of Technology’s (DIT) BA in Visual Art.