Lebanon: How a Mallow man is trying to focus attention on a forgotten crisis

As the war in Ukraine dominates the headlines, international aid workers worry that the human tragedy in Lebanon is bypassing Irish people

Lebanese security inspect the damage after an explosion in the town of Banaafoul near the Lebanese port city of Sidon in April. Humanitarian agency workers believe the way Ireland can help the refugees in Lebanon is by “keeping the conversation alive on the humanitarian needs prevailing elsewhere in the world”. Photo: AP/Mohammad Zaatari

While Ukraine dominates the headlines, international aid workers worry about the extent to which interest in crises elsewhere in the world has waned.

Irishman Stephen Ryan is one of them. A native of Mallow, he has lived and worked overseas with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent movement since 2007.