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DUBLIN | Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:25am EST

DUBLIN (Reuters) - An Irishman was among a group of gas workers kidnapped in Algeria on Wednesday, Ireland's Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore said, demanding his immediate release.

Gilmore's department said the man was an Irish national from Northern Ireland and that the government was in close contact with its international partners to establish what had happened.

"The government stands ready to use all the resources available to us to ensure that our citizen is released as soon as possible," Gilmore, who is also deputy prime minister, said in a statement. (Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Jon Boyle)
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Yesyes wrote:
News flash Eamonn; If he’s from the North then he’s a UK national and none of your concern. The Irish government has tried this tactic many times before, as if the kidnappers would somehow release them simply on the grounds that they were Irish, and it has NEVER worked

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