Tributes to trailblazing travel writer, Dervla Murphy, 90

Dervla Murphy died today. She took her first cycling holiday abroad when she was 20, travelling through Wales and the south of England. The following year she embarked on a five-week continental tour

Travel writer Dervla Murphy at her home in Lismore. Picture: Dan Linehan

President Michael D Higgins has led the tributes to travel writer Dervla Murphy who has died today. 

West Waterford-based travel writer, Dervla Murphy, travelled across land to countries including India, Nepal, Tibet, the Himalayas, Cuba, Siberia, the Russian Far East, the Balkans, Transylvania, Laos, Rwanda, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Peru, Gaza, and Israel, among others.