Irish UN worker was in levelled HQ

ANDREW GRENE, the UN worker with dual Irish and US citizenship, was in a meeting at the UN headquarters in Port-au-Prince that collapsed in the quake.

A policy analyst advising its Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Mr Grene was in the building when it was levelled by the devastating earthquake.

The senior UN official was understood to be attending a meeting with the head of the UN’s MINUSTAH mission, Hedi Annabi, in the former Christopher Hotel, when the quake struck.