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DEC 17 2020
‘THE KINDEST PERSON YOU COULD MEET’
Mick Ryan’s wife accepts award on his behalf PÁRAIC McMAHON
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CLARE hero has been honoured with a posthumous award. Micheál ‘Mick’ Ryan was named Humanitarian of the Year by the Irish Red Cross at Tuesday’s ceremony in recognition of his dedication to improving the lives of others overseas. In March of last year, Mick died alongside seven colleagues when a Boeing 737 Max crashed six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in March of last year. All 157 people on board were killed. Some of the Lahinch native’s past projects
include creating safe ground for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in preparation for the monsoon season and assessing the damage to rural roads in Nepal caused by landslides. “This award means so much to us and my only regret is that Mick isn’t here to accept it himself, I know he would be so humbled by it. To me it’s recognition of the person that he was, he was a humanitarian in every sense of the word,” his wife Naoise said at the ceremony. She has been steadfast in her efforts to obtain further answers from Boeing on how the aircraft that led to his death was deemed safe to fly and said her quest is inspired by their two children, Saorlaith and Macdara aged five and two. CONTINUES PAGE 12