Cork welcome for midwife and her family who fled the Taliban

'I am so happy,' says Nooria Faizi after Government gives her family a visa waiver, and Cork man offers them a place to live

Hurling meets cricket as Josh Roxburgh, Louis McCoy, Harry McCoy, and sisters Zoe and Mia Roxburgh welcome Emran, Arafat, and Mohammad Abas Faizi to the neighbourhood in Waterfall, Co Cork. Picture: Larry Cummins

Being a midwife was a matter of pride for Nooria Faizi, and it was an integral part of who she was as a person.

But when the US withdrawal from Afghanistan took place last August, the subsequent Taliban takeover from the western-backed Afghan government plunged Nooria and her family into a nightmare where their lives were threatened because of the work both she and her husband Arif were doing.