Sally Hayden
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 14, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Irish Times
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- Jul 13, 2026
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âWeâre still worried weâll be sent backâ: Inside Italyâs âacceleratedâ asylum system (opens the original)
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âHow can we expect a good lawyer from this centre? Weâre only eating bread since we arrived,â a Tunisian man says. He is speaking to a Médecins Sans Frontière (MSF) staff member at a reception centre in the Sicilian city of Agrigento. The staff member had tried explaining to a group of men â who recently crossed the Mediterranean Sea â that they were probably in an âacceleratedâ procedure. This means they are deemed by Italian authorities not to be vulnerable or from countries li
Israel strikes Lebanon as fears of escalation mount (opens the original)
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Israel has intensified its bombardment of south Lebanon in recent days despite a âJune ceasefire that was meant to halt fighting between the Israeli military and Lebanese armed group Hizbullah. At least 11 people were killed and eight wounded in Kfar Rumman in the Nabatieh district early on Monday, the Lebanese health ministry said. The dead included two children and four women, while four more children, two women and a paramedic were injured, it said. Another attack on a vehicle resulted in t
âIt was day 13 or 14 when people started dyingâ: More than 200 set sail for Europe. Only 36 survived (opens the original)
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They had come from near and far: women, men and children, from The Gambia and countries further afield, such as Senegal, Guinea and Mali. Many were the breadwinners for their families. They left without saying goodbye, worried any leak could put their plan in jeopardy. They had dreams in mind: Babylon, some called it. Europe, a continent where crushing poverty seemed possible to escape. They had seen the helpful impact of remittances from those who made it, how it could transform their extended
âIs that a body in the water?â Flying over the âmass graveâ that is the Mediterranean Sea (opens the original)
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The Seabird 1 circles the empty blue boat, which bobs eerily in the Mediterranean Sea below. Then, almost immediately, another sighting nearby. Is that a body in the water? Tactical co-ordinator Neeske Beckmann isnât certain. Sometimes, the crew spot bodies floating, glinting white, their faces bloated and pale from so long in the water. This sighting turns out to be debris. Even if it had been a body, it probably would not have been retrieved. Civil search planes spotted 14 bodies over two da
âThis thing makes people animalâ: Inside Bangladeshâs Yaba addiction epidemic (opens the original)
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âMetalfreakâ used to spend time with his pet bird every day: stroking her; cleaning her cage; letting her out to fly. âNow I canât even put myself through that. Who cares?â he says, lying back in his messy bedroom in Dhaka. The man in his forties, who asked to go by his chosen pseudonym, has an increasingly debilitating addiction to yaba, a drug mixing methamphetamine and caffeine, which is destroying lives in Bangladesh. âThis thing totally f***ed up my mind so much,â he says. Yab
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