Cork native Paudie Spillane took shelter just metres from terrorists of Paris attacks

A Cork artist has told how he and three colleagues took shelter in the basement of a Paris restaurant just a couple of hundred metres from a cafe where 19 of last Friday’s victims were gunned down by terrorists.

Paudie Spillane, from Passage West, and the three others, who are all also based in Cork, were at a photography event before going for dinner in Bones Restaurant at approximately 8pm (local time) in the 11th arrondissement, the area where many of the attacks, which claimed 129 lives, occurred.

The restaurant was, Mr Spillane estimates, 150-200m from La Belle Equipe cafe, where 19 people were shot.