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Naoise Connolly Ryan travelled all the way from Cork to Washington so that she could look US government officials in the eye to get justice for the loss of her husband in a preventable Boeing crash, writes Clodagh Finn

Naoise Connolly Ryan with a photo of her late husband, Mick.

When Naoise Connolly Ryan left her hotel in the early hours of Friday morning, November 18, she walked along the still-dark streets of Washington, passing the White House, on her way to a 7am appointment at the US Department of Justice.

She had taken along a framed photograph of her husband, humanitarian worker Mick Ryan, who was killed in a Boeing Max crash in 2019, and made a point of putting it in front of her as she took a seat right beside Glenn Leon, US Department of Justice attorney.