Irish connection leads to laughs during New York subway rescue

A fireman, a paramedic and a woman they were treating under a subway train in New York started laughing after finding out they were all from Ireland.

The paramedic, Niall O’Shaughnessy, from Limerick, treated Mary Downey, 22, who had fallen onto the tracks in the station where three trains passed just feet from her.

Niall had just gone on duty at 6am last Sunday when he got a call about a “man under” at 49th Street Station, located at the north end of Times Square.