{"id":50700,"date":"2016-12-16T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50700"},"modified":"2017-03-07T03:32:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T03:32:29","slug":"i-couldnt-cope-with-seeing-sinn-feins-new-mla-on-tv-or-radio-id-be-thinking-all-the-time-your-father-killed-my-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50700","title":{"rendered":"I couldn’t cope with seeing Sinn Fein’s new MLA on TV or radio… I’d be thinking all the time: your father killed my father"},"content":{"rendered":"

I couldn’t cope with seeing Sinn Fein’s new MLA on TV or radio… I’d be thinking all the time: your father killed my father<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Belfast Telegraph<\/a>
\n2016-12-16<\/p>\n

Stephanie Bell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nHarrowing life: Jayne Olorunda<\/a> whose father Max Olorunda was killed in an IRA<\/a> train bomb during the Troubles<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Jayne Olorunda’s<\/a> dad was killed by an IRA bomber whose daughter has been made a Sinn Fein<\/a> MLA<\/a>. Jayne tells Stephanie Bell this is the last straw and her family is now set to quit Northern Ireland<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

News that the daughter of the IRA<\/a> man who killed her father is to take a seat for Sinn Fein<\/a> in Stormont<\/a> has left Belfast<\/a> author and community worker Jayne Olorunda and her family determined to leave Northern Ireland<\/a>. The distraught 38-year-old says she couldn’t bear to see new MLA Orlaithi Flynn<\/a> in the news now that she had been appointed by Sinn Fein to replace Jennifer McCann<\/a> in the Colin area of west Belfast.<\/p>\n

Jayne was only two when her Nigerian-born father Max Olorunda was killed by an IRA incendiary bomb<\/a> which detonated prematurely in Dunmurry<\/a> on a train travelling from Ballymena<\/a> to Belfast in January 1980.<\/p>\n

She says her mother Gabrielle (66) has never got over it and to this day suffers from post traumatic stress syndrome.<\/p>\n

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\nOrlaithi Flynn<\/small><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Orlaithi Flynn’s father Patrick Flynn was convicted of double manslaughter and possession of explosives for the attack.<\/p>\n

In a heartbreaking interview, Jayne revealed how her family has also suffered years of racial hatred and had planned to leave Northern Ireland last month to try and escape the abuse…<\/p>\n

…She has spent most of her life working in the community and has also written a powerful book called Legacy<\/em><\/a> which tells the story of how her family were plagued by racism, poverty and grief after the death of her father.<\/p>\n

Her father Max (35), an accountant, had been visiting a client in Ballymena and was on the train when the IRA prematurely detonated a device on January 17, 1980.<\/p>\n

The blast engulfed a carriage of the train killing her father, as well as 17-year-old Protestant student Mark Cochrane and one of the bombers, Kevin Delaney (26)…<\/p>\n

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\nGabrielle and Max Olorunda<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jayne Olorunda’s dad was killed by an IRA bomber whose daughter has been made a Sinn Fein MLA. Jayne tells Stephanie Bell this is the last straw and her family is now set to quit Northern Ireland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,26,10],"tags":[25584,25768,17724,25763,4175,25765,25766,25764,25767,25582],"class_list":["post-50700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-uk","tag-belfast-telegraph","tag-gabrielle-olorunda","tag-jayne-olorunda","tag-max-olorunda","tag-northern-ireland","tag-orlaithi-flynn","tag-patrick-flynn","tag-sinn-fein","tag-stephanie-bell","tag-the-belfast-telegraph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52165,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50700\/revisions\/52165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}