New Year honour for AP McCoy and James Nesbitt

Jockey receives knighthood, while actor is awarded an OBE

Irishmen James Nesbitt and AP McCoy were in this year’s New Year’s Honours List in Britain.

Actor Nesbitt, who received an OBE for services to acting, and for helping families affected by the Troubles in the North, said: “I’ve been very blessed with my work and very blessed to come from Northern Ireland, and for those two things to be on the citation was really rather gratifying.”