Gillian Sherratt

It was racial tensions will not be diffused until we learn to listen to each other.

This was Colin Murphy's opinion piece in relation to the death of Eve Sikila.

But in it, he's kind of talking about how we need to be able to have these open conversations so people feel like their opinions are actually being heard and they're not just being dismissed.

But there was a school, Larkin Community College, that took an initiative where they went into Fishamble Theatre and they had artists from diverse backgrounds of socioeconomic disadvantage.

And they brought them in.

They had a group of first year students come in.

Two of the first year students would essentially interview

These people and they could talk openly about, I suppose, the difference in cultures, their different backgrounds and create that open conversation.

And it says here over the course of the sessions, the children spoke with growing assertiveness and frankness.

The intimacy created was extraordinary.

And it goes, there is a real trauma to this.

In this community, the project started in the wake of the Dublin riots of November 2023.

I think from anything that I've read and seen, it seems to be in favour of enacting the bill.

You know, we agreed to it, was it 10 years ago, 2016, when we signed on for the Occupied Territory Bill, but we haven't actually enacted it.

I think they've been talking about it for the last two and a half years since the October 7th incident in Israel.

And I just think, you know, seeing the footage from

At Catriona Graham showing what they'd be willing to do in front of a camera in like two, I suppose, Irish citizens and international citizens.

I'd fear for what's happening that isn't on camera.

I know that I've seen talk of the occupied territory bill being enacted, but only for goods.

And I've seen a lot of people calling that it should be for services too.