New Members of Royal Irish Academy from DCU

Today (4pm, 30 May), Professor Dermot Diamond and Professor Richard O'Kennedy were admitted as the new members of Royal Irish Academy among fifteen other members, continuing a 229-year tradition of recognising outstanding achievement in the world of learning.

Membership of the Royal Irish Academy is the highest academic honour in Ireland and a public recognition of academic achievement. Those elected are entitled to use the designation ‘MRIA’ after their name. There are currently 482 Members of the Academy, including: Susan Denham (Chief Justice); Luke O’Neill (TCD), one of the world's foremost authorities on the innate immune system; Des Higgins (UCD), an Irish biochemist who holds the unusual distinction of being the most cited computer scientist in the world; Peter Heffernan (CEO, Marine Institute); Gerry Boyle (Director, Teagasc); T.K. Whittaker (public servant); Frances Ruane (Director General of ESRI); Maurice Manning (NUI Chancellor); Patrick Honohan (Governor of the Central Bank); and writer and cartographer Tim Robinson.

For more information please visit RIA website.