James Richard Wesley Boyce[2] OBE (born 21 March 1944) is a former senior Vice-President of FIFA.
[3] He was the president of Northern Ireland's football organising body, the IFA, from 1995 to 2007.
[6] He described the failure not to build a national stadium at the former Maze Prison "a massive mistake".
He was seriously injured by a bomb planted by republicans in the early 1970s and was off work for a year not long after his marriage to Hazel.
[3] A senior figure in insurance, he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to football in Northern Ireland.