Kidnapped in Darfur...Home Again in Ireland

DUBLIN — An Irish aid worker kidnapped in Darfur has arrived home to Ireland, greeted by her family for the first time since her release after 107 days of captivity, officials said Tuesday.

Sharon Commins, 33, touched down in a government plane at Baldonnel Aerodrome southwest of Dublin just before midnight (2300 GMT Monday), a spokesman for the Irish foreign affairs ministry told AFP.

In an emotional reunion, she hugged her parents, Mark and Agatha, and the rest of her family and expressed her pleasure at being home, according to the spokesman, who was at the airport at the time.

Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin, who travelled to Khartoum last month in an effort to secure the release of Commins and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki, was among those who welcomed her back to Ireland.

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