Black Santa OBE!
The Dean of Belfast, Rev Houston McKelvey, is being made an OBE in the New Year Honours.
The Dean, 67, holds his Black Santa charity appeal outside Belfast's St Anne's Cathedral annually and has raised millions for charity here and abroad.
Dean McKelvey, who has been in post since 2001, said his most vivid memory was seeing people lining the street in teeming rain to give money for the victims of the Asian tsunami in 2004. The appeal raised £1.6m in a few weeks.
"I think it changed those of us who were involved in it because when you are the recipient of so much goodness and kindness it changes your belief... in humankind," he said.
"There is a lot more goodness than evil but inevitably it is evil that claims the headlines."
The dean is one of 63 people honoured in the list for Northern Ireland.