Sally Hayden

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649 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 21 Jun

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The Women's Podcast · Festival women / Sally Hayden on love during wartime · 4 Jun 2026 podcast

the rest of the world, like the wider kind of human experience and being part of a kind of global community.

And I think the world we live in now, we don't live in like isolated countries where what we do has no impact on everybody else.

And I guess like that is both of interest to me and I think it's important.

But it's been nice being back in Ireland this week.

Even like with the Irish Times, I like meet people who are like, oh, I read your articles.

And I'm like, oh, normally I never really hear that.

So yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, I say in the book it was my first kind of professional assignment.

So I had gone the previous year to Malawi where I had a Simon Cumber's student scheme, which you kind of get as a student.

And so technically I reported from there for the Irish Times, but not – I definitely wasn't professional.

And so, I mean, I think I did two articles in the end, but like –

It took me about four months to write one of them.

So then I went to Rwanda on the professional kind of scheme of version of the same scheme.

And yeah, I was like a bit more professional, but still, you know, I was 24.

I turned up.

I literally booked a one way flight because I had been doing it.

internship in CNN before in London.

And so I brought everything I had with me in London, which I think was two suitcases to Rwanda on a one way flight.

And, you know, they give you this grant money.

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