Manizha Khan Part 2: ‘I would die for Ireland’

The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast · Dec 19, 2025 · 34m

After months of living under suffocating Taliban rule, losing her much-loved job, encountering death threats and oppression, Manizha and her family escaped from Afghanistan thanks with help from an old friend. Arriving in Ireland at Christmas, Manizha and her family were welcomed warmly by their new neighbours in Rosscarbery."When we came, it was Christmas. And I remember when we reached Irish soil, my daughter said, where is Santa Claus? Because Dublin Airport was so beautiful with decorations.“We were in Reenascreena at the time and that house was so isolated and all the neighbours came to…