demonstrations worldwide in support of the Libyan people's struggle against the Gaddafi regime. Her identity was revealed at the onset of 17 February 2011 revolution, when she raised the Libyan tricolour flag in front of the GPO in Dublin's city centre. She was witnessed as the first person to raise the flag in the Republic of Ireland. On 26 February 2011, she and her son, Abdullah Elneihum (Abe Neihum), founded the Irish Libyan Emergency Aid (ILEA), a humanitarian aid organisation to provide medical supplies to Libya during the revolution, which assisted in providing medical equipment and consumables during the revolution to almost all areas in Libya. In September 2011, upon the request of the executive office of the National Transitional Council, Dr Hamroush formed the Libyan Health Office Of Ireland to assist in the treatment of the war wounded and difficult medical cases whose treatment was unavailable in Libya. She was also quoted that the office was formed to assist in recruiting medical specialists to Libya and improve medical training with the aim of nationalising treatment. In November 2011, Dr Hamroush was named as the Minister of Health for Libya in the Transitional Government, made up of 24 ministers, two of whom were women, a Prime Minister and three deputies. Dr Hamroush held office from 2 December 2011 until early November 2012. From March 2012 to August, Dr Hamroush became involved in a controversy when blocking major corruption within the war wounded treatment program, which was directed by a separate department outside of the Ministry of Health. By August 2012, she blocked the War Wounded Committee from continuing its unorthodox practise and merged the treatment of the war wounded into the health department and issued decrees for criminal and forensic accounting procedures. During her short term, Dr Hamroush put in motion many projects in her Ministry that were stalled during the war. At the end of her term, she presented an account of her term to the General National Council and the Temporary Government, as well as the General Prosecutor, highlighting the need to control security and corruption along with raising the standards of work ethics and administrative skills among the Libyan population in order to achieve reform. At the end of 2013, after her return to Ireland, Hamroush began to develop a programme for dialogue and reconciliation by organising conferences and networking for Libyan officials and former officials of