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22/10/2009
President Hosts Reception For Goal Worker
A reception for GOAL aid worker Sharon Commins is to be held today by President Mary McAleese.
The special reception at Aras an Uachtarain will be held for the 33-year-old, from Clontarf who returned to Dublin this week after a 100-day kidnapping ordeal.
An armed gang in Darfur colleague kidnapped Ms Commins along with a Ugandan colleague in early July.
The pair spent more than three months in captivity before being released over the weekend.
Ms Commins was flown home to Dublin earlier this week on the government jet.
The event in the Phoenix Park this afternoon will be attended by the Commins family and friends and also by representatives of all departments, agencies and organisations that assisted in her release and offered support to her family during her captivity.
Following the news of their release Ms McAleese said Ms Commins and her colleague Hilda Kawuki had been immensely brave and resilient.
"We are all deeply proud of both of them. Our thoughts are with them and their families now as they seek to recover from the horrendous ordeal they have endured," she said.
"That ordeal serves as a reminder of the huge scale of the commitment made by Irish aid workers and indeed all aid workers every day as they carry out their noble work on our behalf."
(DW/GK)
The special reception at Aras an Uachtarain will be held for the 33-year-old, from Clontarf who returned to Dublin this week after a 100-day kidnapping ordeal.
An armed gang in Darfur colleague kidnapped Ms Commins along with a Ugandan colleague in early July.
The pair spent more than three months in captivity before being released over the weekend.
Ms Commins was flown home to Dublin earlier this week on the government jet.
The event in the Phoenix Park this afternoon will be attended by the Commins family and friends and also by representatives of all departments, agencies and organisations that assisted in her release and offered support to her family during her captivity.
Following the news of their release Ms McAleese said Ms Commins and her colleague Hilda Kawuki had been immensely brave and resilient.
"We are all deeply proud of both of them. Our thoughts are with them and their families now as they seek to recover from the horrendous ordeal they have endured," she said.
"That ordeal serves as a reminder of the huge scale of the commitment made by Irish aid workers and indeed all aid workers every day as they carry out their noble work on our behalf."
(DW/GK)
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