This triggered a large police investigation and a two-week siege, after which Herrema was released unharmed.

During World War II, he was arrested by Nazis because he was in the Dutch resistance, and was sent to a concentration camp in Poland.

[2] On the morning of 3 October 1975, having just left his home in Castletroy near Limerick, Herrema was abducted by Provisional Irish Republican Army members Eddie Gallagher and Marion Coyle.

[3] After a massive security operation, the kidnappers were eventually traced on 21 October 1975 to a house in Monasterevin, County Kildare.

[citation needed] He eventually returned to Ireland to present an episode of Saturday Live in 1987.