Not helping when France is being terrorised is not neutrality

Nobody can be neutral in the face of merciless terror or injustice, says Fergus Finlay. You help, in whatever way you can

LAST Friday night, I took part in a Concert for Paris in St Patrick’s Cathedral. It happened because of a single Facebook post by one man, the conductor John Doyle, and because of the spontaneous reaction of dozens of musicians and singers around Ireland to the terrible things that had happened in Paris a week before.

There were a thousand people in the capacity audience. Musicians from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra combined with individual players and 200 singers from 10 choirs to put on a seamless, spine-tingling performance.