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Doctor Bono treats degree as sweetest thing
By Caroline O'Doherty
IT may only have been an honorary degree but it was even better than the real thing as far as Bono was concerned.
Already raised to the status of rock god by the fans, his ascent to the rank of Doctor of Laws was nevertheless an elevation the U2 frontman accepted with pride.
Paul David Hewson LLD, or Doc Bono to his pals and admirers after the conferral ceremony at Trinity College Dublin, was even a little awestruck as he stood among various human forms of greatness to receive the honour. Declining photographers' requests to model the ceremonial mortar board he had tucked under his arm, he explained that it couldn't get it on. "My head has swollen such is the treatment I have got from the college," he said.
The musician and Third World debt relief campaigner was one of five high-profile figures to receive their honorary degrees alongside a fresh batch of PhD graduates at Trinity yesterday.
Actress Dame Judi Dench, Munster MEP and president of the European Parliament, Pat Cox and Professor Roy Foster, Professor of Irish History at Oxford and biographer of Parnell and Yeats, were also honoured along with Supreme Court judge, Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness. All five received their degrees from the chancellor of the university, former president, Mary Robinson, after glowing orations in Latin in a traditional ceremony which has changed little in 400 years.
Despite her most recent incarnation as M, the woman of steel in the James Bond movies, Dame Judi, the daughter of an Irish-born mother and Irish-educated father, found herself turning to mush.
"It's a rather emotional day for me," said the veteran performer who will be 69 in December. "My father graduated here in medicine and all my cousins went here. They all had to work for their degrees," she added modestly.
Bono, who as a young fellow turned down an offer of "some obscure" course at Trinity to go and play in some obscure band, still maintained he knew a lot about the college from sleeping in the grounds after nights on the town and scrounging free grub from the student restaurant.
"And here I am surrounded by greatness and nobility. My message to students is that crime does pay," he said cryptically.
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Doctor Bono treats degree as sweetest thing
By Caroline O'Doherty
IT may only have been an honorary degree but it was even better than the real thing as far as Bono was concerned.
Already raised to the status of rock god by the fans, his ascent to the rank of Doctor of Laws was nevertheless an elevation the U2 frontman accepted with pride.
Paul David Hewson LLD, or Doc Bono to his pals and admirers after the conferral ceremony at Trinity College Dublin, was even a little awestruck as he stood among various human forms of greatness to receive the honour. Declining photographers' requests to model the ceremonial mortar board he had tucked under his arm, he explained that it couldn't get it on. "My head has swollen such is the treatment I have got from the college," he said.
The musician and Third World debt relief campaigner was one of five high-profile figures to receive their honorary degrees alongside a fresh batch of PhD graduates at Trinity yesterday.
Actress Dame Judi Dench, Munster MEP and president of the European Parliament, Pat Cox and Professor Roy Foster, Professor of Irish History at Oxford and biographer of Parnell and Yeats, were also honoured along with Supreme Court judge, Mrs Justice Catherine McGuinness. All five received their degrees from the chancellor of the university, former president, Mary Robinson, after glowing orations in Latin in a traditional ceremony which has changed little in 400 years.
Despite her most recent incarnation as M, the woman of steel in the James Bond movies, Dame Judi, the daughter of an Irish-born mother and Irish-educated father, found herself turning to mush.
"It's a rather emotional day for me," said the veteran performer who will be 69 in December. "My father graduated here in medicine and all my cousins went here. They all had to work for their degrees," she added modestly.
Bono, who as a young fellow turned down an offer of "some obscure" course at Trinity to go and play in some obscure band, still maintained he knew a lot about the college from sleeping in the grounds after nights on the town and scrounging free grub from the student restaurant.
"And here I am surrounded by greatness and nobility. My message to students is that crime does pay," he said cryptically.
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