Aoife Moore: Silence is deafening on Irish attitude to difference

Never has silence been so fitting as the one in the Dáil on Wednesday, writes Aoife Moore

Never has silence been so fitting as the one in the Dáil on Wednesday.

Three days ago, TDs in the chamber held a minute’s silence “for those impacted by racism internationally”, after the brutal murder of George Floyd, the black man who died after a white policeman held his knee on his windpipe for more than eight minutes as his colleagues watched on.