Martin flies to Sudan for talks on aid worker

THE Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that Minister Micheál Martin flew to Khartoum last night to meet Sudanese officials as part of ongoing efforts to free kidnapped Irish aid worker Sharon Commins.

The 32-year-old GOAL worker from Clontarf in Dublin was snatched at gunpoint along with a Ugandan colleague and a Sudanese watchman in the town of Kutum, north of Darfur, two months ago.

It’s understood that intensive negotiations have taken place in the past eight weeks but have broken down on a number of occasions.