Aidan Leahy's family are today making the trip to London to be reunited with him after his four-week kidnap ordeal in Iran.

AIDAN LEAHY’S family will make an emotional trip to London this morning to be reunited with him after his four-week kidnap ordeal in Iran.

An Irishman kidnapped in south-eastern Iran said today he and his two fellow captives never knew where they were or who was holding them.

FREED kidnap victim Aidan Leahy will complete the first stage of his homecoming when he is handed over to officials at the Irish Embassy in the Iranian capital, Tehran, this morning.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that Aidan Leahy, the Irish tourist who was held captive in Iran for the past month, has been released from captivity by his kidnappers.

Reports from earthquake-stricken Iran are indicating that the Irish tourist kidnapped there at the beginning of December will be released later today.

FEARS have heightened for the safety of kidnapped Irish tourist Aidan Leahy who went missing in the region of Iran devastated by yesterday’s earthquake.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Brian Cowen has written to the Iranian Government to express his concern at the kidnapping of an Irish citizen by drug traffickers.

David Andrews, the chair of the Irish Red Cross, has met the Iranian Ambassador to Ireland to discuss the kidnapping of an Irish tourist in the Islamic state earlier this month.

Iran today urged Ireland not to pay a €5m ransom demanded by kidnappers of Irish citizen Aidan Leahy.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has named the Irish tourist kidnapped in Iran earlier this week as Aidan Leahy, a mechanic in his 30s who lives in London.

The Foreign Office today named an Irish tourist kidnapped in Iran as Aidan Leahy.