DCU: ROLL OF HONOUR

SPORT
Paddy Christie, Current Dublin football captain

Sean Óg Ó hAilpín, captained Cork senior hurling team to its 30th All-Ireland title in 2005

Eoin Kennedy, All-Ireland handball champion 2005. Has won eight senior All-Ireland titles

ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT

John Connolly, author, graduate 1993 Ardal O'Hanlon, actor/comedian

Donal Dineen, DJ, Today FM

Caroline Morahan, RTÉ Off the Rails Barry Murphy, actor/comedian Breandan O'Gallai (Brendan Galway), Riverdance dancer

Natasha Byram, model.

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Michael Patton, Diageo Group corporate relations director

Padraig McKeon, managing director, Drury Communications

Vincent Wall, Dublin Airport Authority

Mark Mortell, director Fleishman-Hillard Consulting, a former chairman of Bord Fáilte

Pat Montague, Montague Communications

POLITICS

Conor Lenihan, FF TD, Minister of State, Department of Foreign Affairs

Senator Kathleen O'Meara, Labour

Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Féin, MEP for Dublin

MEDIA

Noel Curran, managing director, television programmes RTÉ

Mark Brennock, chief political correspondent, The Irish Times

John McManus, business editor, The Irish Times

Eithne Hand, head of RTÉ Radio 1

Margaret Ward, foreign editor, RTÉ

Rory Carroll, Guardian correspondent

Declan Walsh, Guardian correspondent

Vincent Boland, Financial Times correspondent

Richard Curran, business editor, Irish Independent

David Murphy, business correspondent, RTÉ

David Nally, editor, RTÉ Prime Time

Helen Shaw, director Athena Media, formerly RTÉ's director of radio

Matt Cooper, journalist and presenter of The Last Word, Today FM

Mark Little, RTÉ Prime Time

BUSINESS/INDUSTRY

Donal Forde, managing director of AIB

Rosheen McGuckian, CEO, GE Money

Michael Dwyer, CEO, Empathy Marketing, Pigsback.com

Lorraine Twohill, director European marketing programmes, Google

Jules Braddell , CEO Applied Optotech

Tara Buckley, director general RGDATA

Declan Roynane, general manager DSG Retail Ireland

Brody Sweeney, O'Brien Sandwich Bars

Paul Kerley, founder Norkom Technologies

Mark Redmond, CEO Irish Taxation Institute

Liavin Mallin, founder Shopdirect Group Ltd

Paul Finnerty, Partner KPMG, Corporate Finance

Philip O'Connor, founded Mountcastle Properties

Irene McGoey, Whitehorsepoint

SCIENCE, ENGINEERING, RESEARCH

Vincent Weafer, head of research, Symantec.

Prof Paul Whelan, professor in School of Electronic Engineering, DCU

Philip Moriarty, Professor at University of Nottingham

John Hickey, director of engineering 3COM

Shane Minogue, director Coolea Systems Ltd

Arthur McMahon, director Zandar Technologies plc

Emma McGrattan, divisional vice president Computer Associates

Patrick Dillon, director of technology Lucent Technologies

List supplied by DCU