Carrolls 'over the moon' at son's release

RORY Carroll, the Irish journalist kidnapped Baghdad on Wednesday, was dramatically freed last night.

The 33-year-old Dubliner, who is The Guardian's Baghdad correspondent, was released by his captors shortly after 8pm Irish time and was quickly brought back into the secure Green Zone of the city.

The first confirmation he was safe and well came when he made a telephone call to his parents, Joe and Cathy, at their home in Blackrock, Co Dublin.