Mother praises 'hero' son who died in Ethiopia plane crash

Christine Ryan, mother of Irish man Micheál Ryan killed in a plane crash in Ethiopia last March has said she would like her son to be remembered as a person who cared about humanity and who worked to better the lives of many people.

Speaking on RTÉ Radio’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show from Frankfurt airport where she was en route to Ireland from Addis Ababa with his remains, she said he was coming home as “a UN hero” because of “all the lives he has saved.”