Mother of tragic Micheál Ryan says son is returning home a 'UN hero'

The mother of an Irishman who was killed in a plane crash in Ethiopia last March has said her son, Micheál Ryan, is coming home as a "UN hero" because of "all the lives he has saved."

Mr Ryan, from Lahinch, Co Clare, was one of 157 people who died when the Boeing 737 Max crashed minutes after take-off en route from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to Nairobi, Kenya on March 10. The flight came down near the town of Bishoftu, 50km southeast of Addis Abada. Mr Ryan died two weeks before his 40th birthday.