Call to Confront Racism in Ireland After Yves Sakila's Death

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

Growing up in Dublin, I learned to navigate life in fight-or-flight mode. Yet even now, our leaders are ducking a vital conversation Seán Gallen is a Martinican-Irish writer and film-maker based in Berlin and Dublin Watching 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 declared dead in a Dublin hospital on 15 May, a short time after being pinned to the ground by secur...

By Seán Gallen