Clodagh Finn: Boeing crash victims' families still fighting for truth and justice

As Micheál Martin meets Donald Trump, families of Boeing crash victims demand justice. Will the Taoiseach push for accountability?

Naoise Connolly-Ryan at her home in Cork City. Her husband Mick Ryan from Lahinch, Co Clare died when the Boeing 737 Max his was flying in crashed minutes after taking off in Addis Ababa in Ethopia in 2019. Picture: Dan Linehan

If all else fails at the Oval Office on Wednesday, Taoiseach Micheál Martin might return to the phrase he levelled at Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald in the Dáil and tell the rest of the world that president Donald Trump is “ag insint bréaga arís” (telling lies again).

He is too gracious, too diplomatic, and much too statesman-like to do such a thing, although he must privately be wondering how, in the name of all that is plain to see, the leader of what was once the free world can call the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a dictator and say that his country — not invading Russia — started the war?