ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Aid worker Sharon Commins and her colleague Hilda Kawuki, who were kidnapped and held for more than 100 days in Darfur, have been given a humanitarian award for their "brave and selfless" work.
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
President Mary McAleese tonight paid tribute to the courage and strength of aid worker Sharon Commins, who suffered almost four months in captivity in war-torn Sudan.
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
President Mary McAleese is due to host a special reception at Áras an Uachtaráin today for GOAL aid worker Sharon Commins.
Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
President Mary McAleese is due to host a special reception at Aras an Uachtarain today for GOAL aid worker Sharon Commins.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
President Mary McAleese will host a reception at Áras an Uachtaráin today to mark the safe return to Ireland of Irish aid worker Sharon Commins.
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The safe return of Goal worker Sharon Commins was celebrated by President McAleese when she hosted a reception at Áras an Uachtaráin today.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
GOVERNMENT RECORDS relating to the kidnapping and release of Goal aid worker Sharon Commins in Darfur are to be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act at the request of Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
FOUR MEMBERS of the gang responsible for kidnapping Goal aid workers Sharon Commins and Hilda Kawuki in Darfur are being questioned by the Sudanese authorities following their recent arrest, Sudan’s humanitarian affairs minister has disclosed during a visit to Dublin.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
SUDAN’S HUMANITARIAN affairs minister will arrive in Ireland this weekend for an official visit during which he will meet freed aid worker Sharon Commins and Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
ORLA TINSLEY and Sharon Commins were among this year’s winners at the Irish Tatler Women of the Year awards.
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
THE FREED Goal aid worker Sharon Commins, who was held for three months in Darfur along with a colleague, has “strongly recommended” that people volunteer for aid work for a one-year period.
Infidels Are Cool (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Yet liberals and muslims bitch and moan when jihadis are made to play naked twister, or waterboarded. Irish aid worker Sharon Commins endured mock executions while a hostage The Irish aid worker held hostage for nearly four months in Sudan endured mock executions with her abductors shooting around her, she has revealed today. Sharon Commins who was [...]
Sunday Tribune (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... that this is the home of Goal worker Hilda Kawuki (42) who was last weekend released along with Sharon Commins (32) after four months' captivity in war-torn Darfur. Hilda, smiling and vivacious in a warm pink top and black skirt, makes us welcome in the family's comfortable sitting room while her mother serves us cool bottled water. Ann Kawuki, who cared for Hilda's son Amunu (4)...
IrishEyes (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... back, the Dublin bicycle rental scheme is years ahead of target, and that kidnapped GOAL worker Sharon Commins talked in Irish to confuse her captors. 1. Ken Foxe -- "Exposed: Top 10 Dail expenses claimants" on the front page of the Sunday Tribune, 25 Oct 09. 2. Mark Hillard -- "Shoppers ignore economic crisis for festive pilgrimage to New York" in the News section...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... an armed gang in western Darfur last week. The kidnapping took place just days after Goal workers Sharon Commins (32) and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki (42) were freed on October 18th.Mr Lefevre’s abduction marks the fifth kidnapping of foreign aid personnel since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir in March for alleged...
