Honours for surgeon who separated conjoined twins

A MUSICIAN, a Supreme Court judge, the surgeon who led the team that separated Ireland’s conjoined twins, and a senior executive of a pharmachem giant will be honoured by their former college this week.

University College Cork (UCC) will present its 2010 Alumni Achievement Awards to musician and broadcaster Philip King, the Hon Mr Justice Liam McKechnie, Mr Edward Kiely, consultant paediatric surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, and Dr Paul Ahern, the senior vice-president of Eli Lilly, at a ceremony at the college on Friday.

Mr King is a founding member of the seminal band Scullion. With his company, Hummingbird Productions, he won an Emmy Award in 1991 for the landmark television series Bringing it all Back Home. A member of the Arts Council, he established South Wind Blows Productions in 2006 and he is the series producer of RTÉ’s Other Voices.