Meet the human rights lawyer who became a farmer in the West of Ireland
Bridget Murphy on her farm in Sligo
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It took Bridget Murphy two years to re-acclimatise to the wet and windy hills of the West of Ireland when she arrived "home for a visit" from South Africa in 1998.
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