Clodagh Finn: We must stand with those who take on corporate ‘untouchables’

Most of us will never be forced into a situation where we have to take on big corporations like Corkwoman Naoise Ryan, but that does not mean that we cannot make a stand.

Naoise Ryan with a photo of her late husband Mick. Since March 2019, she has been pressing Boeing to answer questions on the fatal — and avoidable — air crash that killed her husband.
Picture: Jonathan Tyner

We are not short of fearless campaigners in Ireland. Vicky Phelan is one, the CervicalCheck campaigner who travelled to America this week for cancer treatment which she hopes will prolong her life.

Poet Rye Aker sent her on her way with a new poem ‘Vicky In The Flat’, telling her that everyone in Ireland will be her virtual flatmate during her stay.