Early Life
Adi Roche has spent her life, since 1977, campaigning for and publicly active in issues relating to the environment, peace and justice. Having worked for a number of years in the Irish national airline, Aer Lingus, Adi took redundancy to work full-time as a volunteer for the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She devised a Peace Education Programme and delivered it in over fifty schools throughout Ireland. In 1990 she became the first Irish woman elected to the Board of Directors of the International Peace Bureau in Geneva.
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