Somali-Irish activist, educator and social entrepreneur Ifrah Ahmed (below right), Mei Lin Yap (third from left), Ambassador Liaison Officer with the Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability and People Experience Administrator at Cpl Recruitment Agency, computer visionary Pietro Perona (left) and Kathy Prendergast (second from right), one of Ireland's foremost living artists, all received Trinity’s highest honour from Chancellor Dr Mary McAleese at a ceremony conducted in Latin in the historic Public Theatre.