Complex sentence: As Minister for Transport Reynolds was involved in a bizarre incident in which an Aer Lingus plane was hi-jacked with the chief demand for the safe return of the aircraft and its passengers being the revealing of the religious secret, the Third Secret of Fatima.
Split into simpler sentences: As Minister for Transport Reynolds was involved in a bizarre incident in which an Aer Lingus plane was hi-jacked. The Minister's chief demand for the safe return of the aircraft and its passengers being the revealing of a religious secret, the Third Secret of Fatima.