JAMIE DORNAN says it is hard to understand “how mad and how affecting it was” growing up in Northern Ireland during and after the Troubles. “I remember checking for f***king bombs underneath dad’s car,” the actor says, adding “and by the way that was a daily routine for so many people”.
Dornan, right, stars in Sir Kenneth Branagh’s new film Belfast, a semi-fictionalised account of the director’s youth in the city in the late Sixties. Dornan, 39, grew up nearby in the town of Holywood and went to school in Belfast. “I remember [checking for bombs] with dad, and I’m talking from the most privileged of backgrounds from home,” he said.
