Yves Sakila’s death has echoes of George Floyd. When will we in Ireland confront our own racism? (opens in new tab)

Growing up in Dublin, I learned to navigate life in fight-or-flight mode. Yet even now, our leaders are ducking a vital conversationSeán Gallen is a Martinican-Irish writer and film-maker based in Berlin and DublinWatching the harrowing footage of what would become Yves Sakila’s final moments of consciousness, it is hard not to be reminded of the agonising death of George Floyd. Sakila was on 15 May, a short time after by security guards outside Arnotts, a city centre department store.Congole...