Rory Carroll due back home today

Freed Irish journalist Rory Carroll, who was kidnapped in Iraq, is due to be reunited with his family in Dublin today.

Rory Carroll due back home today
Sun, 23 Oct, 2005 - 11:08

Freed Irish journalist Rory Carroll, who was kidnapped in Iraq, is due to be reunited with his family in Dublin today.

Gunmen snatched the Guardian journalist from a Baghdad suburb on Wednesday, but he was released unharmed on Thursday night after 36 hours in captivity.

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