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16/06/2008
Queen Honours Those Behind NI Regeneration
The Queen has recognised 57 people from Northern Ireland, with Her Majesty's Birthday Honours List including many awards to individuals involved in the regeneration and promotion of the Province as an area for investment and redevelopment.
Those honoured with MBE's included Northern Ireland top footballer David Healy, long-serving DUP east Belfast Councillor and MLA Robin Newton and Rodney James, Managing Director of Killyhevlin Hotel in Enniskillen.
Similarly honoured were Alexandra Buchan, from the Department of Social Development's West Belfast Regeneration Office; Doreen Burns, a Personnel Officer for the Department of Regional Development; and former Chief Executive of Cookstown Council, Michael McGuckin.
Award-winning photographer John Harrison also received an MBE; the Rev David Kerr who helped in the development of the East Belfast Mission's £23m Skainos Project; Irish Hockey Association President Andrew Rose; Carrickfergus JP James Currie, who has devoted the past 60 years to helping disadvantaged and vulnerable young people and is the chairman of the NI Youth Service, NI CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children and NI Temperance Society, and Cookstown music teacher Meta Bell.
Consultant clinical psychologist Dr Michael Paterson was awarded an OBE for his services to healthcare. Dr Paterson, a former policeman who had both arms blown off in an IRA bomb attack in 1981, now works with trauma patients.
The Permanent Secretary at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, Stephen Quinn, becomes a Companion of the Bath (CB).
CBE's go to Andrew Coppel, Chair of Tourism Ireland; Fionnuala Jay-O'Boyle, for her work in NI Heritage; Richard Rodgers, former Chief Exectuive of the NI Heritage Service; and Dennis Rooney, Chair of the International Fund for Ireland.
Among those receiving OBE's was Invest NI's John Cooke, Head of Near-Market Research.
(PR)(BMcC)
Those honoured with MBE's included Northern Ireland top footballer David Healy, long-serving DUP east Belfast Councillor and MLA Robin Newton and Rodney James, Managing Director of Killyhevlin Hotel in Enniskillen.
Similarly honoured were Alexandra Buchan, from the Department of Social Development's West Belfast Regeneration Office; Doreen Burns, a Personnel Officer for the Department of Regional Development; and former Chief Executive of Cookstown Council, Michael McGuckin.
Award-winning photographer John Harrison also received an MBE; the Rev David Kerr who helped in the development of the East Belfast Mission's £23m Skainos Project; Irish Hockey Association President Andrew Rose; Carrickfergus JP James Currie, who has devoted the past 60 years to helping disadvantaged and vulnerable young people and is the chairman of the NI Youth Service, NI CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children and NI Temperance Society, and Cookstown music teacher Meta Bell.
Consultant clinical psychologist Dr Michael Paterson was awarded an OBE for his services to healthcare. Dr Paterson, a former policeman who had both arms blown off in an IRA bomb attack in 1981, now works with trauma patients.
The Permanent Secretary at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, Stephen Quinn, becomes a Companion of the Bath (CB).
CBE's go to Andrew Coppel, Chair of Tourism Ireland; Fionnuala Jay-O'Boyle, for her work in NI Heritage; Richard Rodgers, former Chief Exectuive of the NI Heritage Service; and Dennis Rooney, Chair of the International Fund for Ireland.
Among those receiving OBE's was Invest NI's John Cooke, Head of Near-Market Research.
(PR)(BMcC)
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