TWO CONNACHT RUGBY players narrowly escaped the axe attack that occurred at Dusseldorf’s main train station earlier tonight and which left five people injured.
Jake Heenan and Dominic Robertson-McCoy had been in Germany to watch Wednesday night’s Champions League game between Borussia Dortmund and Benfica and were preparing to travel back to Ireland via Dusseldorf on Friday.
They planned on spending Thursday night in the city and headed towards the Central Station earlier this evening to do some sight-seeing.
“We left the station to get food”, Heenan told The42.
We can’t have been gone more than an hour and got back to that. The station and everything near it was on lockdown – police and helicopters everywhere. We saw loads of police under a bridge with the road closed off. Then we saw the station and just asked people what had happened. There was a reporter taking photos who let us know. Fortunately, we didn’t get any closer than that. We could just see all the police and people on stretchers inside the station”.
Heenan and Robinson-McCoy returned to their hotel, situated a couple of kilometres away, on foot and saw a litany of emergency service vehicles on their way to the scene.
“On the whole walk him, there were police, fire trucks and ambulances racing through the streets. Locals were a mixture of upset, emotional and confused - a lot of people were wondering what was going on”.
One man was arrested, police said, correcting earlier police reports of two arrests.
@Eoin you might want to look up the actual word..”Narrowly”..thanks for the #scare
I showed up narrowly 4 hours after they narrowly did, I narrowly missed them narrowly missing narrowly narrowly narrowly life is but a dream
#LPlate. Brilliant
I was in that very train station 3 years ago. I don’t think I will sleep tonight.
Crap
I drove on the M50 today. There was a crash there yesterday….lucky to be alive
What sort of sham journo are you Eoin, they arrived a hour after the attack and couldn’t get near the place because all streets we blocked off.. how is that a narrow escape ?
@Mark Dolan: Watches set to GMT?
I was going with a girl once until i found out she liked both boys and girls. So one night she asked me back to spend the night with herself and her girlfriend. I obviously declined. Narrow escape
The dramatic headline made me laugh after reading the article but the comments cracked me up. So thanks for the morning giggles
I once saw a headline on The 42 which suggested the article was about some interesting relevant news. I read it. It turned out to be irrelevant click bait! I narrowly escaped shouting out “ohhh ffs not again!!!”
Eoin may narrowly miss getting the sack in the morning.
@LeeMurray his headline will say, Eoin narrowly misses been fired by the journal by getting a promotion
Would you have gone to print with this had anyone died? Luckily no one did, frustratingly opportunistic click bait stuff.
FAKE NEWS
The only news that sells these days apparently. I’m actually embarrassed for the writer and his superior who gave this article the OK!
Eoin, I think the comments here speak for themselves. Really poor article. I’m not sure what your LinkedIn profile says but I wouldn’t be surprised if it said “Click Bait Specialist at Journal Media Ltd”. Would I be right? Whoever approved this article to be published is equally as bad.
I really really don’t think you need to have solid qualifications to write for the Journal. It’s evident in most articles.
Eoin you are better than this. I’ve read your sports articles, some of which have been excellent. You are worth more than sum of the number of clicks surely!!
*the sum
I have travelled to Cologne through Düsseldorf every week for the last 2 years and guess what, I have never EVER felt a threat. Sorry I don’t play rugby. Tabloid journalism Journal!!!
Jesus I remember the time I had a close encounter with the 9/11 attackers. It was the 3rd of March. 2007. I was on a ferry. Haven’t slept since.
What were you doing on a ferry. Just curious.
The only thing that could be narrowly missed is Eoin getting the sack in the morning.
Click baiting headlines. Shame on you.
I honestly thought it was 3 weeks tomorrow when reading that article , absolutely ridiculous!
German police… AXE man had psychological problems. You mean he was a Muslim migrant and you don’t want to say? The trend continues.
Donald Trump wouldn’t have the balls to come up with a headline like that!
Pathetic article
If the two boys were there there would’ve been no attack ….. just a report of a man with an axe up his h0le…..
What an awful article
Given the size, weight and physical strenght of the average rugby player now days, you would imagine they would be tough nuts to crack even with a axe.