Reid awarded with OBE
Saturday, 30 December 2000 15:50The past president of the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) Ken Reid has been awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List. Reid, 69, currently sits on the Heineken Cup committee and has received the reward in recognition of his work in promoting sport as a unifying force in Northern Ireland.
Other sportsmen to be awarded include Peter Schmeichel with an MBE. The inspirational Dane is widely acknowledged as the finest goalkeeper ever to play for the Old Trafford club, skippering the Red Devils to Champions League glory against Bayern Munich in Barcelona. Also awarded with an MBE is Frankie Dettori who became champion jockey in 1994 with 233 winners and headed the list the following year with 211. His achievement in riding seven winners from seven rides at the first day of Ascot's Festival in 1996 moved racing from the remote corners of the sports section right to the front page.
Olympic legend Steve Redgrave is to receive a knighthood. The knighthood is a fitting end for a man whose victory in the coxless fours on Penrith Lake in the Sydney Games this year gained him his fifth medal in his fifth consecutive Games - a feat unrivalled in an endurance sport.
Filed by Sinéad Kissane
