Sally Hayden

Sally Hayden is an award-winning journalist, photographer and author. She is an international correspondent for the Irish Times and has reported all over the world for an array of outlets, including CNN International, TIME, the BBC, the New York Times and Al Jazeera. Her first book, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing, the An Post Irish Book of the Year Award, the Michel Déon Prize, the Terzani Prize, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, among others. She has twice been named overall ‘Journalist of the Year’ at the Irish Journalism Awards – in 2023 and 2025. In 2022, she won the International Award at Irish Tatler’s Women of the Year Awards. She is also an adjunct professor at the UCD Sutherland School of Law.