The late Mick Ryan has been posthumously named the Humanitarian of the Year by the Irish Red Cross Micheál (Mick) Ryan, an engineer with the United Nations’ World Food Programme, has been posthumously named the Humanitarian of the Year by the Irish Red Cross. Clare man Mick Ryan was named as the winner of the award at last night’s virtual Irish Red Cross Humanitarian Awards, with his wife, Naoise Ryan, accepting the award on his behalf. Mick, originally from Attychristoria, Lahinch, had dedicated his life to humanitarian work overseas. He died along with 156 others when Ethiopian Airlines flight ET-302 crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa airport on March 10th 2019.