'Ireland has led the way': Irish aid for Kenya and neighbouring countries is making a real difference

As Tánaiste Micheál Martin visited projects funded by donations from Ireland during a four-day trip to Kenya and Ethiopia this week, aid workers there say the depth of the Irish commitment is doing much to improve the lives of citizens

Tanaiste Micheal Martin with activist Ifrah Ahmed and the Irish ambassador to Kenya Caitríona Ingolsby.

A thin young man in shorts wearing flip-flops and pulling a wooden cart suddenly appeared on the motorway amid rushing lanes of SUVs and packed buses in Kenya’s capital Nairobi.

He jogged steadily into a central lane as brakes in vans and packed buses screeched to swerve around him.