'The people here are my family': Women who rebuilt their lives in Ireland

To mark International Women’s Day, Martha Brennan speaks to three women who have rebuilt their lives in Ireland having fled their native country

Marwa Wahhoud photographed at Lismore Millennium park. Photo; Mary Browne

"Refugees and migrants are not ‘others’. They are ‘us’. They are as diverse as the human family itself," UN deputy secretary-general Amina Mohammed once said.

In 2018, Mary Robinson quoted Mohammed's words in a piece she wrote for Time magazine about the importance of facilitating migration in a changing world. "For centuries, Irish people were forced to migrate to flee famine, poverty and political oppression," Robinson wrote, citing how the Irish are now celebrated abroad for their contributions to communities around the world.