Published Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Ms Commins, 32, said she was looking forward to feeling safe while sleeping in a proper bed and to eating her favourite foods.
"I've been craving eggs Benedict since day seven so I'm going to satisfy that need first and foremost," she said during a press conference held shortly after she touched down on Irish soil on Monday night.
"I'm going to go up to a bed that isn't on a rock and where I have a pillow and I don't have to use a dirty sack that used to be around onions and smells of onions.
"I'm going to know that I'm safe and I'm going to try and sleep for longer than three minutes at a time and I will wake up fresh and go for breakfast in the morning somewhere nice."
There were emotional scenes as Miss Commins arrived back in Dublin on a government jet for a long-awaited reunion with her relieved parents, Mark and Agatha.
She beamed as she hugged her parents, her brothers Derek and Martin, and their partners as she touched down.
'Dream'
"Up until now all of it was just a dream," said Miss Commins, moments after the jet landed at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, just before midnight.
"I dreamt so often when I was on top of a mountain of getting back to Ireland.
"This is the first time it's not a dream and I hope I don't wake up on top of a mountain in a few minutes."
Miss Commins and her Ugandan colleague Hilda Kawuki were released in the early hours of Sunday morning after 107 days in captivity.
During the press conference, Miss Commins admitted there were times she feared she would not come out alive.
President Mary McAleese will host a reception for the aid worker at her official residence in Dublin, Aras an Uachtarain, on Thursday.
The Dublin aid worker was in Darfur with the humanitarian organisation Goal when she and Miss Kawuki were kidnapped in the northern town of Kutum in July.
Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs said it had not paid a ransom to end the captivity - understood to be one of the longest running of any foreign aid staff in the region.