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Some welcome news from the Philippines: An elderly Irish priest kidnapped and held captive in the Philippines has been released, it has been revealed tonight. The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin confirmed Fr Michael Sinnott has been freed. The missionary was abducted from his gated compound in Pagadian City on the island of…