New year honours awards
Eighty people have been honoured for their contribution to society in Northern Ireland through the new year honours list. Of these, 25 will receive the British Empire Medal which was reintroduced for local acts of service at the time of the 2012 Olympics.
Order of the British Empire
Commander (CBE)
James Haslett, chief executive, NI Water
Patrick Morrison, professor, human genetics, Queen’s University Belfast
Officer (OBE)
Margaret Boden, chief executive, Christian Aid Ireland
Margaret du Feu
Edwin Dunlop
William Halliday, chief executive, Mindwise
Maire Kerr, Department for Employment and Learning
Ernest Logan, managing director, Giltspur
Scientific Ltd
Mary MacIntyre, Department of the Environment
James McAdam, professor, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute
Pauline McCabe, lately prisoner ombudsman
Mary McColgan, professor, social work, University of Ulster
Nigel McIlwaine, Reserve Forces and Cadets Association
Robert McLean JP, Dungannon Development Association
Chief Superintendent Pauline Shields
Daniel Todd, lately Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute
Member (MBE)
Samuel Bailie, Department for Employment and Learning
Alderman Charles Brown, Carrickfergus Borough Council
Kathleen Burns, principal, St Therese Nursery School, Belfast
Edward Campbell, veterinary surgeon
Joan Carberry, family learning co-ordinator, Belfast Metropolitan College
Edmund Cochrane, founder, Downpatrick and County Down Railway
Robert Colhoun, Alpha Badminton Club, Lisburn
Joan Cuthbert, principal, Culmore Primary School, Derry
Joan Doherty DL
Edyth Dunlop, regional manager, Northern Ireland Union of Supported Employment
Kathleen Ferguson, founder, Brainwaves Northern Ireland
Nigel Finch, general manager, North Down Training Ltd
Claire Gilligan, senior vice-president, Warner Chilcott Group
Catherine Glass, trauma and orthopaedics manager, Altnagelvin Hospital
John Hadden, chairman, Techno Tyrone Ltd
William Hassard, director of parks and leisure, Belfast City Council
Ann Hayes, University of the Third Age
Richard Hill, lately chairman, Northern Ireland Screen
Martin Howell, director, Business in the Community
Timothy Husbands, chief executive, Titanic Belfast
Rosemary Jordan, Riding for the Disabled
Davinder Kapur
Joseph McAree, lately chairman, Dungannon Swifts Football Club
Faye McLeod
Patricia McQuillan, Coleraine Policing and Community Safety Partnership
Anna Moss, managing director, Belfast, Citigroup Global Markets Ltd
Pauline Mulholland, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust
John Niven, lately chief engineer, Border Force, Home Office
Mary O’Kane, proprietor, Beech Hill Country House Hotel, Derry
William Oldcroft, chair, board of governors, Omagh High School
Diane Rathfield, general manager, Roe Valley Education Forum and Women’s Network
John Smith, chair, board of governors, Crumlin Integrated College
George Stevenson, Ulster Branch, Tennis Ireland
Margaret Weir, chair, board of governors, Ligoniel Primary School
British Empire Medal (BEM)
Barbara Blair, Young Farmers’ Clubs of Ulster
Maureen Brachi, president, Cuan Scribes
Hazel Cameron, lately administrator, Randalstown Arches Association
Karen Carson, captain, 2nd Dromara Girls’ Brigade Company
Derek Catney, secretary, Victoria Homes Trust
Simon Clarke, Department for Social Development
Irene Cumming, president, Ballymena Festival
Blanche Curran, nurse
Margaret Deering, proprietor, Ballycastle House B&B
John Doherty
Geraldine Duggan, vice-chair, Belfast Lough Sailability
Kathleen Elliott, founder, Good Morning Ballycastle
Hazel Flannigan, volunteer, HMP Maghaberry Braille unit
Lynda Hill, founder, Grovehill Animal Trust, Omagh
Edna Howard, chair, Newcastle Glee Musical Society
Thomas Livingstone
Robert Mayne, honorary captain, 1st Loughbrickland Boys’ Brigade Company
John Meikleham, treasurer, Youthnet
Ruth Montgomery, secretary, Clogher Valley Agricultural Society
Mary Morrison, Carers UK
James Neill, scout leader
Albert Robinson, Scout Movement
Gordon Speers, musical director, Portadown Male Voice Choir
Ruth Trueman, Drumcree Girls’ Brigade Company
Gillian Webb
Queen’s Police Medal (QPM)
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Little
Detective Inspector Gary Stephen McClure
Jeffrey McCready, lately detective inspector
Canadian link
Bombardier chairman Laurent Beaudoin was appointed as a companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (CMG) for services to industry, particularly in Northern Ireland. The firm has 13 UK sites, the largest in Belfast. A native of Quebec, Beaudoin is the son-in-law of company founder Joseph-Armand Bombardier and has been its chairman since 1979.
