German man hit on head with axe arrived in Dublin days before attack

A GERMAN man axed in the head as he walked along a Dublin street had just arrived in the city days before after travelling down from his home in the north west.

Ralf Hasch, a 28-year-old originally from Stuttgart, is recovering in hospital after Sunday’s late night attack. Gardaí believe he was hit a number of times on the head with the small sharp axe-like weapons.

Mr Hasch, although in a stable condition in hospital, is said to be extremely distressed following what appears to have been an unprovoked as he walked in the south inner city around 11.30pm.