UCC honours Cork’s leading lights

The Queen of Crime, the champion of Other Voices, and the driving force behind Cork’s Penny Dinners were just some of the leading lights honoured by UCC yesterday.

Bestselling author Martina Cole, broadcaster Philip King, and Cork Penny Dinners co-ordinator Caitríona Twomey were joined by former director of the Crawford Art Gallery Peter Murray, and former CEO of Cork City VEC Richard Langford, in being recognised at the honorary conferrings in the Aula Maxima.

Ms Cole, the English multimillion-selling crime author and daughter of a Corkman, said receiving a Degree of Doctor of Literature was a spiritual homecoming to the county she visited frequently as a child.