Birthday Honours 2022

Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)

The Right Honourable Arlene Foster

Lately First Minister of Northern Ireland. For Political and Public Service.

Mrs Fionnuala Mary Jay-O’Boyle CBE

H.M. Lord-Lieutenant, County Borough of Belfast. For services to the community in Northern Ireland.

Companions of the Order of the Bath (CB)

Ms Tracy Meharg

Lately Permanent Secretary, Department for Communities, Northern Ireland Executive. For public service.

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Professor Martin Eugene Joseph Bradley OBE

For services to defence medicine.

Dr Tony McGleenan QC

Senior Crown Counsel, Northern Ireland. For services to Justice.

Professor James Andrew McLaughlin OBE

Head, School of Engineering and Director, Nanotechnology and Integrated Bioengineering Centre (NIBEC). For services to higher education and research.

Professor Stephen Smartt

Professor of Astrophysics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast. For services to science.

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Mrs Lisa Bennett-Dietrich

Chief Executive Officer, community relations in schools. For services to peace education and community reconciliation in Northern Ireland.

Mr Terence Hugh Brannigan

Chairman, Tourism Northern Ireland. For services to tourism and the business community in Northern Ireland.

Mr Simon Burrowes

Editor of Debates, Hansard, and Head of Public Engagement, Northern Ireland Assembly. For services to parliament and to sport in Northern Ireland.

Mr Alan Dinsmore

Principal Scientific Officer, Forensic Science Northern Ireland. For services to justice and forensic science.

Mrs Patricia Donnelly

Head, Covid-19 Vaccination Programme in Northern Ireland. For services to the Covid-19 response.

Mrs Sarah Jane Ewart

For services to abortion legal reform in Northern Ireland.

Mr Sean Terence Hogan

Chair, TB Eradication Partnership.  For services to the agricultural industry in Northern Ireland.

Mr Lyndon Robert Campbell Hughes-Jennett

Northern Ireland Attaché, British Embassy, Washington. For services to the community in Northern Ireland.

Mr Nigel Keery

Head of Estates Operations, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. For services to public health.

Mrs Mary Lemon

Principal Officer, Department of Justice, Northern Ireland Executive. For services to the justice system and to vulnerable people.

Mr Noel William McKee MBE

For services to charity in Northern Ireland.

Colonel John William Rollins MBE

For services to the armed forces in Northern Ireland.

Ms Dawn Cynthia Shaw

Chief Executive, NI Guardian Ad Litem Agency. For services to social work in the voluntary and community sector.

Mrs Amanda Stewart

Lately Chief Executive, Northern Ireland Policing Board. For public service.

Mrs Donna Lynne Williams

Director of Supplies and Services Division, Construction and Procurement Delivery, Northern Ireland Civil Service. For public and charitable service.

Mrs Suzanne Kathryn Wylie

Lately Chief Executive, Belfast City Council. For services to local government in Northern Ireland.

Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)

Professor Gillian Armstrong

Professor of Business Education and Director, Business Engagement Unit, Ulster University. For services to higher education and business.

Mr Samuel Bell

For voluntary services to people with disabilities and their carers in Northern Ireland.

Mr Clifford Brooks

For services to visual arts in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Margaret Anne Brown

Solicitor. For services to legal education and charity in Northern Ireland.

Mrs June Cairns

Ward Manager, Acute Frailty and Rehabilitation Ward, Lagan Valley Hospital, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust. For services to health and social care in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Elizabeth Lorraine Campbell

Interim Chair, Supporting Communities. For services to the community in Northern Ireland.

Dr Brian Patrick Caul

For voluntary service to the Royal National Institute for deaf people in Northern Ireland.

Ms Angila Chada

Executive Director , Springboard Opportunities Limited. For services to children and young people in Northern Ireland.

Mr Aodhán Connolly

Lately Director, Northern Ireland Retail Consortium. For services to the economy.

Mrs Patricia Sarah Corbett DL

For services to the community in Belfast.

Mrs Deborah Jessica Corry

For services to civil contingency.

Mr Albert Gordon Cunningham

Chairman Cunningham Covers Ltd.  For services to economic development in Northern Ireland.

Mr Francis Ephraim Dempsey

Volunteer, Royal Ulster Constabulary GC. For voluntary and charitable services to policing and the community in Northern Ireland.

Mr Alexander Colin Dickson

Owner, Dicksons Roses. For services to horticulture in Northern Ireland.

Rev Mervyn Gibson

For services to the community in Northern Ireland.

Dr Margaret Elizabeth Hardy

For services to the poultry industry in Northern Ireland.

Mr Colin Hayburn

Executive Director, Almac. For services to economic development and philanthropy in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Brenda Herron

Lately Chief Commissioner, Girlguiding Ulster. For services to young people.

Professor Joanne Elizabeth Hughes

Director of the Centre for Shared Education, Queen’s University Belfast. For services to education and to the community in Northern Ireland.

Mr Timothy Philip Maxwell Irwin

Director, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Northern Ireland Executive. For public service.

Miss Mary Paula Jordan

Principal, Sperrinview Special School, Dungannon, County Tyrone. For services to education in Northern Ireland.

Mr Richard David John Kirkpatrick

For services to the equine sector in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Barbara Hilary Lewis

For services to the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) and the health and social care sector in Northern Ireland.

Mr James Lindsay

For voluntary service to education in Killyleagh, County Down.

Miss Shirley McCay

For services to hockey and to the community in Northern Ireland.

Mr James McClean

Chair, Ballymena and District Branch, Parkinson’s UK. For services to people with Parkinson’s in County Antrim.

Mrs Josephine Anne McConaghy

For services to vulnerable families in the Lisburn Area.

Mr Samuel Thomas McGregor

Member, Governing Body, North West Regional College. For services to further education and to the community in Northern Ireland.

Mr John Andrew McIlmoyle

Vice-Principal, Longstone Special School, Dundonald, Belfast. For services to education and to children with special educational needs.

Miss Gillian Elizabeth Montgomery

Speech and Language Therapist, Northern Health and Social Care Trust. For services to healthcare in Northern Ireland.

Mr Sean Daniel Mullan

For services to the Northern Ireland ambulance service.

Mr Adam Dominic Murphy

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Shnuggle. For services to the economy in Northern Ireland.

Mr Philip Alexander O’Neill

Chief Operating Officer, Translink. For services to sustainable and accessible transport in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Eilish Rutherford

For services to sport and to charity in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Helen Mary Setterfield

Chair, OGCancerNI. For services to patients and families affected by Oesophago-Gastric cancer.

His Honour David William Smyth QC

For services to the community in Northern Ireland.

Mr Richard James Gregg Yarr

For services to music in Northern Ireland.

Medallists of the Order of the British Empire (BEM)

Mr Abraham Agnew

For services to the community and environment in Northern Ireland.

Ms Marjorie Aitken

For services to older people in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Leanne Victoria Louise Barnett

Deputy Director, Strategic Communications and Engagement, Police Service of Northern Ireland. For services to policing.

Mr Mervyn Thomas Bell

For services to Surestart and to the community in Belfast during Covid 19.

Ms Patricia Mary Browne

Chair, Portaferry Fundraising Branch, Royal National Lifeboat Institution.  For services to maritime safety in County Down.

Mrs Ruth Elizabeth Anne Campbell

For services to cancer patients and their families in Northern Ireland.

Dr Alan Cooper

Lately Member, Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside. For services to the environment.

Mr Douglas Alexander Crowe

For services to young people in North Belfast.

Mr Liam Cunningham

For voluntary service to young people in Northern Ireland.

Mr John Fitzgerald Degnan

Manager and Chief Fundraiser, Eilish Degnan Children's Foundation. For services to patients and their families at the Royal Belfast Hospital for sick children.

Miss Emma Jane Devenny

Special Educational Needs Classroom Assistant, Drumachose Primary School, Limavady. For services to children with special educational needs.

Mrs Christine May Gemmell

For services to the Army Widows Association.

Mr Ivan Noel Gilmour         

For voluntary services to cancer patients and their families.

Mrs Catherine Eileen Gleave

Co-Founder, GIFT International. For voluntary and charitable services.

Mrs Margaret Geraldine Hill

For services to young people in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Barbara Ann Hunter

Access Officer, Policy and Practice, Ulster University. For services to education.

Mrs Mary Elizabeth Evelyn Irwin

For services to the Women's Institute and the community in County Tyrone.

Mr Gerald Knight

For voluntary service to the Royal National Institute for deaf people in Northern Ireland.

Mr Iain Lendrum

Chairman, Royal British Legion Club and Coronavirus Response Group, Fivemiletown.  For services to the community in County Tyrone during Covid-19.

Dr Venie Martin

Chair, Causeway University of the Third Age. For services to  older people in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Alacoque Teresa McCaffrey

Occupational Health Nurse, Western Health and Social Care Trust. For services to occupational health particularly during Covid-19.

Mrs Ethel Ruby McClelland

For services to the community in County Tyrone.

Mr Stephen McComb

Networks Leakage Technician, Northern Ireland Water. For services to the community in Northern Ireland.

Mr Andrew Drummond McCrea

For services to cricket and to young people in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Roberta McNally

For services to remembrance in Northern Ireland.

Mr James Roy Morrison

For services to triathlon in Northern Ireland.

Mr Robert Alexander Nesbitt

For services to association football and to young people in Northern Ireland.

Professor Julian David Orford

Member, Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside. For services to the environment.

Mr Robert John Robertson

For services to St John’s Parish Church, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone.

Mrs Shauna Elizabeth Scroggie

Community Service Officer Probation Board, Northern Ireland. For services to criminal justice.

Mrs Eileen Gay Sherry-Bingham

Centre Leader, Atlas Women's Centre. For services to disadvantaged women in Lisburn, Northern Ireland particularly during Covid-19.

Mrs Elizabeth Shields

For services to fundraising and to the community in Northern Ireland.

Mr Ronald William Smyth

For services to hockey in Northern Ireland.

Mrs Diane Elizabeth Tregaskis-Sloan

For services to the community In Northern Ireland.

Mr Ivan Marshall Walker

For services to the community in Markethill, County Armagh.

Mrs Janet Amanda Wilson

Co-Founder, GIFT International. For voluntary and charitable services.

Queen’s Police Medal

Detective Constable Graham Wilson Sillery

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Constable Richard Samuel Taylor

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Sergeant Darren Welsh

Police Service of Northern Ireland

Queen's Ambulance Medal 

Alwyn Craig Wilson

Emergency Medical Technician and Hospital Ambulance Liaison Officer, Northern Ireland Ambulance Service