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Colin Murphy: Gaza is rightly dominating media attention, but why isn’t the agony of Sudanese people newsworthy, too?
Thousands of people had been killed and seven million had fled their homes. In that time, Sudan was mentioned on 12 separate occasions in the Dáil; 10 of these focused on the risks to Irish citizens there. Since then, the media has reported daily on the …