Simon Cumbers

Recently, Irish Times journalist Sally Hayden travelled to the Gambia to speak to two survivors from that journey.

I was wanting to report on this for a long time and I was lucky as well to get a Simon Cumbers grant to support this reporting.

So I thought, you know, why don't I go to the Gambia, try and track the people down, you know, who knew people on the boat, just figure out what happened and use this disaster to show the broader story and the broader situation.

In today's episode she shares their story.