Dr Amin Kheir lives in Dublin but commutes to Drogheda where he works as a consultant psychiatrist.
"I do that commute every day on the M1," he tells RTÉ News.
But he hasn't made that journey for almost two weeks as he has been in Khartoum where he was visiting family.
Dr Kheir said he made the trip to spend the last week of Ramadan with his elderly parents and his siblings, arriving on Friday 14 April.
"Then all hell broke on Saturday morning," Dr Kheir told RTÉ News.
"Very suddenly we started to hear bombs, we started to hear gunfire, explosions and then it escalated to air strikes," Dr Kheir said.
"There was a bit of tension beforehand but nobody really expected this to happen," he said.
An Irish citizen, Dr Kheir said he registered on the Department of Foreign Affairs website and has been in regular contact with the Irish Embassy in Nairobi and receives updates by email from the Department of Foreign Affairs.
"The problem is anything I am being offered at the moment is just for me," Dr Kheir said.
"I have been offered an evacuation airlift for myself and I don't know how people are expecting me to leave my two elderly parents... my preterm nephew (who was born at 28 weeks 10 weeks ago) and my vulnerable siblings behind to die in a warzone. I'm not going to do that."
Dr Kheir is currently sheltering together with those family members, where he says they have limited electricity, running water and internet connection.
Currently on day two of a 72-hour ceasefire, Dr Kheir said that it is now "a little bit calmer" but added "it can be very volatile depending on where you are."
Dr Kheir said that he knew of "many people" who had been attacked in their own houses, and spoke of how a colleague of his had been fatally stabbed in his home.
Video footage recorded by Dr Kheir a number of days ago shows a street battle being waged outside his window.
A second video shows the wreckage of an apartment owned by a family member, where a hole blown has been blown in an exterior wall.
Dr Kheir said that he is grateful for the efforts of the Irish Government but believes that part of the problem lies in the fact that Ireland does not have "an independent mission" in Sudan.
"We are relying on other people and other European countries and they have their own conditions on who they can take and who they can't take," Dr Kheir said.
"I know of a lot of other Irish citizens they have the same situation, I know at least two of my friends who have their immediate family with them and obviously they just can't take the risk of leaving them behind," he said.
"How am I expected to go back home to Ireland, go back to my clinic, see my patients and function as if nothing is happening, I can't do that," Dr Kheir said.
"Time is against us, we don't know what's going to happen next and we just hope during this calmer period there might be a way out," he said.
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