NEW YEAR'S HONOURS LIST:FORMER IRISH rugby international Trevor Ringland is among 51 people from Northern Ireland named in the New Year's honours list.
Mr Ringland, who is a member of the policing board, the British-Irish Association and is chairman of the One Small Step campaign which works to foster reconciliation, is honoured with an MBE for services to the community.
Since his retirement as a rugby international he has coached Ballymena and been a committee member of the IRFU. He is also a member of the IRFU's charitable trust which helps to provide for injured players.
He has worked with Peace Players International which builds contacts between sports people on both sides of the religious divide.
A solicitor, he is a senior partner in the firm of Macaulay and Ritchie Solicitors. He is a non-executive director of Independent News and Media (Northern Ireland) and a board member of the Ireland Funds and Mediation Northern Ireland.
He has served as a member of the Sports Council for Northern Ireland and on the Broadcasting Council for Northern Ireland.
Rosaleen Moore, also a member of the policing board, receives an OBE for her public service.
Mrs Moore has had a distinguished career in the health service and has worked for health union Nipsa. She has also worked for the Craigavon Peace and Reconciliation Partnership.
Also honoured is Rosemary Kelly, who chairs the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and is a member of The Irish Times Trust. The trust was established in 1974; its main objective is to secure and maintain The Irish Times as "an independent newspaper primarily concerned with serious issues for the benefit of the community throughout the whole of Ireland, free from any form of personal or party political, commercial, religious or other sectional control".
Ms Kelly receives an OBE for services to the arts. She has held a range of positions within the arts since joining the BBC in 1981.
She left the organisation having been a producer, continuity announcer and newsreader and later a company secretary and the head of the corporation's public affairs division.
She has also worked for broadcasting regulator Ofcom.
Within the arts, she has been on the boards of the Ulster Orchestra, the Ormeau Baths Gallery and the Association of Ulster Drama Festivals. She is a founding member of the Irish Film and Television Awards and is a board member of the local branch of the Royal Television Society.
Ms Kelly also runs speech and drama workshops, has directed amateur theatre and has had a close involvement with Help The Aged for the past 25 years.
The bulk of those honoured from Northern Ireland - 47 of the 51 - receive either MBEs or OBEs. Four people receive CBEs, the highest honour awarded to anyone in Northern Ireland - there are no northern recipients of knighthoods or damehoods.
Dr John Jenkins, a consultant paediatrician at the Waveney and Antrim hospitals, receives his CBE in recognition of his services to medicine.
John MacQuarrie, lately the deputy ombudsman at the Office of the Assembly Ombudsman, is honoured for his public and voluntary service.
The chairman of Tidy Northern Ireland, Leslie Murray, is honoured for services to the environment, while Anthony Watson receives his CBE in recognition of his work with Northern Ireland's Strategic Investment Board.
The SIB handles some £20 billion which is invested in infrastructure and other public sector initiatives.