British woman whose Nigerian father was killed by an IRA bomb has been driven from her Northern Ireland home by racists, she says, as she finally finds ‘sanctuary’ in England |
The Daily Mail
2018-02-20
 Jayne Olorunda, the daughter of a man killed by the IRA, has told how she was forced out of Northern Ireland by racism |
- Jayne Olorunda grew up in Belfast after her father was killed by an IRA bomb
- She says her family have been forced out of Northern Ireland by racism
- Now in her thirties, she was surrounded by racist thugs outside party in 2016
- She says her family are much happier in Leeds, where ‘attitudes are different’
The daughter of a man killed in an IRA bombing has told how she was later forced from Northern Ireland by racism.
Jayne Olorunda is the daughter of Nigerian-born Max Olorunda, who was killed by an IRA incendiary bomb which detonated aboard a train in Dunmurry in 1980.
She grew up in Belfast but recently moved to England due to racism in Northern Ireland…
…Miss Olorunda has written Legacy, the story of her family and how they have coped with her father’s tragic death and the aftermath of it.
The book covers Miss Olorunda’s mother’s deteriorating health and how the pair eventually met the man involved in the bombing which killed her father as well as her own struggles growing up.
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Tags: Belfast, England, IRA, Irish Republican Army, Jayne Olorunda, Leeds, Max Olorunda, Northern Ireland, Richard Spillett