Clare native posthumously awarded prestigious humanitarian award

Mick (Michael ) Ryan, Global Deputy Chief, World Food Programme Engineering. Michael was a fatality in the Ethiopian Airline plane that crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa, killing all on board.

A Clare native and engineer for the UN World Food Programme who died in a plane crash last year has been awarded the Irish Red Cross Humanitarian award for 2020.

Mick Ryan, who lived with his wife Naoise and their two children in Cork, was killed in an Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10 last year. His flight from Addis Ababa went down minutes after take-off.