“As a journalist, my job is to elevate voices that may be overlooked while making efforts to hold powerful individuals, organizations, and governments accountable.” Sally Hayden
Whether it be war and displacement, climate collapse and rapidly widening inequality, we are living in a time of crisis . Acclaimed international correspondent Sally Hayden has spent her career covering some of the darkest moments of our time, and yet even in the face of unimaginable adversity, she’s witnessed the love and care of everyday people.
In stories that crisscross the globe, from Uganda to Lebanon, Rwanda to Iraq, Hayden asks us: what if news was recounted through the prism of the actions people take for those they love? Would it become harder to dehumanise those who seem different to us? This is Also a Love Story dares us to recognise how connection, self-sacrifice and love can be found in even the most difficult of times, and to question what might be needed to create a better world.
Sally Hayden is an internationally acclaimed journalist whose reporting spans six continents. She is an adjunct professor at UCD Sutherland School of Law, and her debut, My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route won many awards including An Post Irish Book of the Year and An Post Non-Fiction Book of the Year.