Arlene Foster has said she is “thrilled and delighted” to have been made a dame in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
The ex DUP leader, who was the first woman appointed First Minister in Northern Ireland, said receiving a damehood in the Platinum Jubilee year made it all the more special.
Dame Arlene, who represented the constituency of Fermanagh and South Tyrone as a Stormont Assembly member for 18 years before leaving electoral politics last year, is the most high-profile name among 100 honours recipients from Northern Ireland.
