After 106 days, mother treats Sharon to a real taste of home
Wednesday October 21 2009
SHE had a 100-day long craving for a plate of eggs benedict.
But all did not go well when Sharon Commins's mother tried to cook her daughter the breakfast she had desired for so long.
"I did my best. I didn't do such a good job," Agatha Commins laughed.
"I wasn't able to take her out as she was still hanging around in her dressing gown, so some morning that she is able to get up early, we will take her for breakfast."
Following her release at the weekend, Ms Commins said she was craving eggs Benedict -- a classic brunch dish consisting of an English muffin topped with ham, poached eggs and Hollandaise sauce -- since day seven of her ordeal and also planned to indulge in plenty of champagne when she got home.
Emotional
There was an emotional reunion with her family when the government jet landed at Baldonnel just before midnight on Monday night. Yesterday, she was enjoying her first full day of rest at home after the 106-day abduction in Sudan.
A steady stream of gifts and flowers arrived at the Commins family home in Clontarf, north Dublin, throughout the day.
Agatha Commins said her "number-one priority" was getting her daughter's health back to normal after the kidnapping, during which she lost a substantial amount of weight.
She is said to be very tired following the events of the last few days. Ms Commins was given just 15 minutes' notice before she was brought to freedom in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Following her arrival back in Ireland, Ms Commins said she and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki had relied on each other while they were being guarded by the group of kidnappers.
"Hilda would talk the hind legs off a donkey and so would I, so we would just keep interrupting each other to talk about ourselves and got through it that way," she said.
President Mary McAleese will host a reception to mark the safe return of the Goal aid worker at Aras an Uachtarain tomorrow. The reception will also be attended by her family and friends as well as representatives of the different departments who worked towards her release.
- Shane Hickey
Irish Independent
