Sally Hayden
sallyhayd.bsky.social
Sally Hayden
@sallyhayd.bsky.social
Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Inge Feltrinelli Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Irish Book of the Year) & 'This is also a Love Story' (coming 2026)
International Crisis Group is hiring an analyst to work on a "global order and peacemaking project". Position can be located in any country where Crisis Group has a registration, incl Kenya, South Africa, Turkey, Colombia, Canada, US, UK, Belgium or Mexico jobs.crisisgroup.org/o/analyst-gl...
International Crisis Group - Senior Analyst, Global Order and Peacemaking (Global Issues and Institutions)
Crisis Group is launching a new program on Global Issues and Institutions. The program will include (i) a project on global order and peacemaking; (ii) Crisis Group’s eEarth project monitoring resourc
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November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New report just filed from the “ground zero” of climate change. Coming soon @irishtimes.com #bangladesh (my drone pic)
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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"In the sea there are crocodiles" and "My fourth time we drowned" are magnificent examples of this.

You should read them if you want to have an opinion about the asylum system.
3. Books help you to walk in other people’s shoes, and to see things from someone else’s point of view.
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Both my book & I are at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Malaysia. Thank you to @iaccseries.bsky.social for bringing me here. The (one copy of the) book is available in the bookshop. @gijn.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 AM
The Financial Times is hiring a social video producer in London. #journojobs job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
Social Video Producer
London
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November 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
November 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
A man praying on his rickshaw outside the International Crimes Tribunal in Dhaka after Sheikh Hasina was found guilty & sentenced to death earlier today. #bangladesh
November 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The scene outside the high court in Dhaka ahead of the verdict in ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s crimes against humanity trial. 🇧🇩 #bangladesh
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
New announcement: a Swedish publisher for ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’! www.instagram.com/p/DRCXM_-jJC...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thank you everyone for the kind messages re ‘journalist of the year’ at the Irish Journalism Awards. Here is a link to what I said in the acceptance video they played there: www.instagram.com/p/DQ97qCSjvQv/ (video too long for Bluesky). 🙏🙏 www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/1...
The Irish Times secures eight wins at 2025 Irish Journalism Awards
Sally Hayden, Róisín Ingle, Ian O’Riordan, Rosita Boland and Chris Maddaloni among winners announced at Dublin ceremony
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November 13, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"Libya was urged at a U.N. meeting on Tuesday to close detention centres where rights groups say *people* have been tortured, abused and sometimes killed.
Multiple states including Britain, Spain, Norway and Sierra Leone raised concerns..." www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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November 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is tomorrow! Do join us.
I'm speaking as part of this online event on November 12 organised by the NYU Migration Network, focused on global questions around migration, detention & deportation. Anyone can join & here is the link to register: nyu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @nyukevo.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Hello, Dhaka 🇧🇩 #bangladesh
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Yes, the Fourth Time We Drowned is brilliant. Read it for a Book Club I'd just joined and it persuaded me to stay in the group. Thought-provoking in spades.
October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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My Fourth Time We Drowned is an unforgettable read and a reference for every other book that attempts to portray the experience of crossing land and water to create a new life.

clairemcalpine.com/2023/11/17/m...
My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden
Seeking Refuge On the World’s Deadliest Migration Route Sally Hayden is a correspondent for the Irish Times, who has reported stories across Africa and the Middle East for a wide range of med…
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October 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Beirut Hallowe'en self-portrait. #lebanon
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Seen in Beirut last week. #lebanon
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Reposted by Sally Hayden
A new Bellingcat investigation geolocates the site of a mass killing near Al Fashir, Darfur. More than eighty bodies were found beside destroyed vehicles along an earthen berm built around the city.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/11...
Geolocating Darfur Killings of Those Escaping Al Fashir - bellingcat
Warning: Contains written descriptions of extreme violence including murder. All graphic footage has been omitted. A Bellingcat investigation has identified and verified the exact location of a mass k...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🙏🙏🙏
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Reposted by Sally Hayden
I'm speaking as part of this online event on November 12 organised by the NYU Migration Network, focused on global questions around migration, detention & deportation. Anyone can join & here is the link to register: nyu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @nyukevo.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Here's some of my other reporting on this case done over the past 6 years:
www.irishtimes.com/news/world/a...
& www.vice.com/en/article/h... & www.theguardian.com/global-devel... (& read My Fourth Time, We Drowned!!)
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM