Your evening longread: Dervla Murphy, Ireland's intrepid travel writer

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And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.Dervla Murphy “Well, I don’t terribly like that word in relation to my sort of travelling – it’s not anything to do with it,” she says, politely but firmly, in her low-pitched drawl, when I suggest that her pioneering trips must have presented challenges along the way. “Clearly there have been discomforts and extremes of temperature – though not a great deal. But I am not going out to overcome something, like an explorer or serious mountaineer. I am travelling to enjoy myself.

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