Kidnap survivor among missionaries honoured at inaugural ceremony

A Columban priest who survived kidnapping in the Philippines was one of over 200 returned missionaries honoured at a ceremony in Dublin yesterday.

Fr Michael Sinnott, 83, from Barntown, Co Wexford, was kidnapped in Oct 2009 and held for more than a month by a rebel Islamic group.

Fr Sinnott, who spent 42 years in the Philippines, said the kidnapping did not affect him. He once joked that the media gave him a harder time than his captors.