Irish survivors join Ranulph Fiennes in Marathon des Sables mission

You mightn’t know Paul Deasy. To give you an idea what we’re dealing with, he’s a guy who regularly gets his wife to drop him off in Dungarvan. Only Paul lives in Fermoy, 32 miles away.

Paul doesn’t bring the phone.

“You get weak and you get tired. You will naturally look for a way out, so if you remove that natural way out then you’ve got to get home.”