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Thousands of people took to the streets today in solidarity with the victims of the Parisian terrorist atrocities.

On a wet and windy day in the capital scores marched through the elements as close to 6,000 people marched through the city centre.

There was also a solidarity march in Galway as Irish people stood shoulder to shoulder with French people.

In Dublin the crowd marched from O’Connell Street to the Dail where they paused to sing La Marseillaise.

The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that one Irish citizen was injured in the gun attacks which claimed the lives of 127 innocents.

The department are providing consular assistance to the victim who has been named as yet.

Meanwhile, further horror stories from Irish people emerged today as people shared their stories of escaping the bullets and bombs wreaked havoc in Paris.

Cormac Flynn, an Irish software developer living in Paris, was in a restaurant near the Bataclan theatre where over 100 people were taken hostage.

He live-tweeted his experience as the people in the restaurant made their escape.

Speaking to Marian Finucane today, he said: “At around 10 o’clock we noticed that everyone had stood up in the restaurant.

“We were down the back so I couldn’t see what was going on at the front. I thought there was a fight or something, I don’t know.

“Two people who had been shot had come in. One person was shot in the leg, another person in the stomach.”

The restaurant owners shut the lights off, lit candles and directed people to make their way upstairs to a residential building.

He said: “We were there for about two hours. People opened their doors and gave everyone water and let them use their bathrooms, things like that.

“Everyone was on their phones or smoking. It was a really strange feeling. Everyone was tense, but sort of disconnected from it. I suppose we were shocked by what was going on.

“There were people who had been in the Bataclan and who were very, very upset. Even though we didn’t know the details we got a sense that something large had happened.”

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Eventually, after two long and tense hours, they were instructed to leave the building.

Cormac said: “We were told we could leave and so we all started to go down. Then they were like ‘Run, run quickly!’ So we had to go quickly and run across the road.

“They had us covered by police with machine guns. It was very bizarre, it was like a movie. There was just people everywhere.

“We ran across the boulevard to the Mrai, which is the area just nearby, and they had blocked off a street on one side with ambulances and the Red Cross, and on the other side by Police.

“We were in that street for three hours. At this stage everyone’s phones were dying so we didn’t really know what was happening.

“We managed to contact everyone at home, so everyone knew we were safe. Eventually about three or four in the morning we found a way to walk home.

“The street that would have taken us the most direct way was still closed, but we went another way and got home eventually.”

Hazel Bergin, a law student at Trinity College on Erasmus in the city, was in the Stade de France with four of her friends while explosions went off outside.

She said: “We heard the explosion at around 18 minutes, then we heard two more. It was actually at half time one of the boys checked his phone.

“He had been getting Twitter updates from his friend saying something happened. I text my parents then saying ‘Something’s happened at the Stade de France. I’m inside but I’m OK.’

“They text me back and said ‘What’s happening?’ because at that stage none of the regular media outlets had any information at all.”

As word of the attacks began to filter through the crowd, Hazel and her friends began to plan their way out of the stadium.

Hazel told RTE Radio One: “Our friends were saying ‘You should get a taxi home, you should think about getting home now.’

“But we talked about it and we said ‘There’s 70,000 people here. In a weird way it was probably the safest place in all of Paris.

“They’re going to have a plan for what to do with all these people. They have to have a plan.’

“So we stayed for the full match and then we walked out. It was calm, it was a strange, surreal calm.

“Then when we were leaving suddenly everyone started screaming and running back into the stadium. I assumed there was a gunman firing at the crowd.

“You hear the expression all the time ‘running for their lives’, but we ran for our lives. Ran back into the stadium, one of the guys grabbed my hand and grabbed another girl’s hand and said ‘I don’t think we should go back into the stadium.’

“I knew what he was thinking, which was ‘If it’s a gunman, we’re going to be sitting ducks in the Stade de France.’

“But we did go back in. To be honest I still do know what caused us to do that. It could have just been that people were moving very quickly.

“I thought I had been scared before in my life. But I know now that I had never experienced actual fear. That was actual fear. We thought we were going to die.”

Hazel and her friends stayed on the pitch for a further 20 minutes before they were eventually allowed to leave.

At around 1.30am they arrived back at their accommodation at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris, where they were reunited with their friends.

Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan confirmed that consular assistance to one person injured in the attacks, but said they had no indications of any other Irish people being caught up in the deadliest violence in France for decades.

Mr Flanagan added: “Our advice remains that Irish citizens in Paris should exercise caution, stay indoors and continue to follow the instructions of the local authorities.

“Any citizens intending to travel should check with their airline or tour operator for information - the airports are operational but citizens should expect additional security and travel disruptions.

“Citizens should continue to monitor the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s twitter feed @dfatravel and our travel advice at www.dfa.ie which will be updated in line with developments.”

Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny, President Michael D Higgins and Deputy Prime Minister Tanaiste Joan Burton were among those leaders to condemn the attacks and offer condolences to France.