Irish missionary and eight others freed weeks after kidnapping at Haiti orphanage

Gena Heraty was abducted at orphanage she ran along with seven Haitian colleagues and a three-year-old child

An Irish aid worker and eight fellow captives have been released nearly a month after they were kidnapped in Haiti.

Gena Heraty, a missionary who ran the Our Little Brothers and Sisters orphanage in the hills outside Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, was abducted on 3 August along with seven Haitian colleagues and a three-year-old child.