Nell McCafferty among those to get honorary degree from UCC

Honorary degrees will be conferred by University College Cork next Wednesday on well-known people from the worlds of business, the arts, and entertainment.

Journalist, playwright, and civil rights campaigner Nell McCafferty is to be presented with a Degree of Doctor of Literature, as is Dee Forbes, director general of RTÉ.

Ms Forbes, who was appointed last April, previously served at Turner Broadcasting, part of Time Warner, where she ran Turner’s business in Britain and Ireland.