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Bono's Wife Honored for Mercy Missions to Help Chernobyl Kids
The Express, June 20, 2002
Mark Jagasia
The wife of U2 frontman Bono will be given a degree for her mercy missions to the nuclear wasteland of Chernobyl.
Beautiful mother-of-four Ali Hewson will become the latest in a string of celebrity graduates when she is awarded the honorary degree next week at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
Anti-Sellafield campaigner, Ali, who recently organised more than a million protest postcards to be delivered to Downing Street, already has a degree in social science and politics from Trinity College University in Dublin. Chernobyl campaigner Adi Roche will join Ali at the ceremony and she will also be granted a degree. And by picking up her honorary gong Ali follows in the footsteps of her rockstar husband, as well as Bob Geldof and cook Myrtle Allen. Footballer Roy Keane donned a mortar board and cape recently to receive a doctorate in law. And President Mary McAleese and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate John Hume have also been conferred with doctorates.
Ali, 41, who lives in a Dublin mansion overlooking the Irish Sea, has been on several aid missions to Chernobyl and Belarus with the Chernobyl Children's Project. More than 8,500 children have been brought to Ireland to recuperate and over 60 have had life-saving operations.
Anti-death penalty campaigner Sister Helen Prejean, who had her book Dead Man Walking turned into a film, will also be honoured.
The Express, June 20, 2002
Mark Jagasia
The wife of U2 frontman Bono will be given a degree for her mercy missions to the nuclear wasteland of Chernobyl.
Beautiful mother-of-four Ali Hewson will become the latest in a string of celebrity graduates when she is awarded the honorary degree next week at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
Anti-Sellafield campaigner, Ali, who recently organised more than a million protest postcards to be delivered to Downing Street, already has a degree in social science and politics from Trinity College University in Dublin. Chernobyl campaigner Adi Roche will join Ali at the ceremony and she will also be granted a degree. And by picking up her honorary gong Ali follows in the footsteps of her rockstar husband, as well as Bob Geldof and cook Myrtle Allen. Footballer Roy Keane donned a mortar board and cape recently to receive a doctorate in law. And President Mary McAleese and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate John Hume have also been conferred with doctorates.
Ali, 41, who lives in a Dublin mansion overlooking the Irish Sea, has been on several aid missions to Chernobyl and Belarus with the Chernobyl Children's Project. More than 8,500 children have been brought to Ireland to recuperate and over 60 have had life-saving operations.
Anti-death penalty campaigner Sister Helen Prejean, who had her book Dead Man Walking turned into a film, will also be honoured.
