Rescued priest flies home to Ireland

Irish missionary Fr. Michael Sinnott, who was held captive by still unidentified armed men in Mindanao for 31 days, left for his homeland early Thursday.

“I feel fine going back home and looking forward to the weather (in Ireland). It’s windy, wet and cold,” the 79-year-old Columban missionary was quoted as saying by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines news website shortly before he boarded his 1:05 A.M. flight at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

Fr. Patrick O’Donoghue, regional director of the Missionary Society of St. Columban, accompanied Sinnott in the trip.

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