![]() She was obviously deeply upset because she couldn’t be seen as someone who was in a genuine relationship.” At the time I didn’t think anything of it. “We came out, a car drove up, called her a ‘n***er lover’ and drove away. “There was one time we went to Tesco,” remembers Otukoya. Straight-up racism was slugged at the couple like a brick to the chest. Not everyone uncomfortable with a romance between a black man and white woman was as tactile. ![]() “If looks could kill,” Otukoya says, “I’d probably be dead at this stage.” From the moment their union was forged, the young lovers’ came under a hydraulic press of neighbourhood gossip, disapproving friends and constant sideways glances. She was a native of a small town in Co Donegal. He was a youthful black man who had moved to Ireland from Nigeria when he was nine. His voice quivers and cracks as he describes a doomed romance with a woman in Letterkenny, Co Donegal. ![]() They ripple with a hurt most of us don’t experience. Richard Bashir Otukoya has some bad relationship stories.
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