Dr Tiede Herrema was kidnapped near his Limerick home fifty years ago this week

Dr Tiede Herrema and his wife Elizabeth holding a bullet a kidnapper gave him after his ordeal. Photo: Getty

Dr Tiede Herrema and his wife Elizabeth holding a bullet a kidnapper gave him after his ordeal. Photo: Getty

Fifty years ago this week, Dr Tiede Herrema left his home at Castletroy in the Limerick suburbs to travel to an early-morning meeting.

The 54-year-old managing director of Ferenka was travelling to the company’s steel-cable manufacturing plant in nearby Annacotty.