Caoimhe was born in 1978 in Dublin. She spent most of her childhood in Canada and Southern Africa (Mauritius and Zimbabwe). While growing up she travelled extensively around Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe with her parents who were working with developmental aid and social justice projects. She left Zimbabwe in 1997 and moved to New York, where she spent a year working with The Catholic Worker and other groups. While living at the Worker she participated in a 21-day fast outside the U.N. with Voices in the Wilderness which was her first direct contact with the group. In 1998 she spent a year working in Guatemala with returned refugees, and then spent two years in Chiapas accompianing a community of resistance. The Chiapans’ struggle, and the collective and inclusive nature of it both inspired and educated her as to the power of non-violent resistance. Caoimhe then returned to Ireland for 6 months before joining a Voices delegation to Iraq January 2002. She then travelled to occupied Palestine where she spent a year, almost exclusively in Balata and Jenin Refugee Camps. Present in Palestine for the massive military invasions of Febuary and April of that year, she volunteered with the Red Crescent, U.P.M.R.C., and I.S.M. Having lost a number of close friends in the Jenin massacre, Caoimhe lived on in the camp until she was shot and shortly after deported by the Israeli army late last year. She spent the four months after her deportation giving over 80 talks, public meetings, and interviews across Ireland, London, and Wales. Having participated in the Shannon Peace Camp, set up to oppose the Irish government’s decision to allow U.S. warplanes to refuel in Ireland in the lead-up to the war, she was arrested on a number of occasions. Caoimhe travelled to Iraq in mid-April to join Voices in the Wilderness in Baghdad. She has spent the past five months meeting and working with Iraqi grassroots groups and individuals who are attempting to mobilise Iraqi civil society in exploring non-violent means of resistance. She is also working to help initiate a campaign seeking justice for the relatives of Iraqis killed by Occupation forces.