Captors freed Irish Priest because they wanted to watch the Pacquiao fight
In a report by GMAnews.TV, 79 year old Irish priest, Fr. Michael Sinnott who was kidnapped and taken hostage for a month by Philippine Guerrillas in Mindanao was released by his captors because they wanted to watch the Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto fight.
“Your freedom is our freedom. We don’t want to be here for a long time, too. And we want to watch Pacquiao’s fight,” Sinnott told GMAnews.TV on Saturday.
The 79-year-old Sinnott who was recovering from heart surgery prior to his kidnapping, believes his abductors let him go because they felt it was hard to take care of an older person with health problems.
“With my age and condition, they really don’t want to hold me longer. I am old, and I had a hard time walking,” said Sinnott
(Photo of Fr. Michael Sinnott/Credit: Mark Tia)
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good-pacman will win because of GOD’S will… he is predestined to be great so he can help his people.
WOWWWW!!! this is serious business ha….to give up a kidnapping to watch a 1 hour boxing match..
Hahahaha you gotta laugh….
Not taking anything away from Pacquiao. I think he should win too… I’ll be backing him all the way…. but I just can’t work out the seriousness of these kidnappers, (do they kidnap just bcoz they have nothing better to do), you really can’t take them too seriously if they are going to give up a kidnapping to watch a fight
One hour? Not one-hour brother. How about 9-hours? That is if you’re like most of us who can’t afford PAY-PER-VIEW.
How come the Indonesians who have nothing to do with Manny Pacquiao, was able to broadcast the fight through TV ONE (Asia Link) ad-sponsored, live as it happened, in real-time, via satellite, on the clear, un-ENCRYPTED and FREE-to-Air? While the Philippine network who was able to secure the rights to air the program has to broadcast it delayed even with the multiple repetitive ads it was able to book as sponsors for the telecast?
And why was the PAY-per-view provider SOLAR ALL ACCESS has to show advertisements during the telecast when satellite DTH and CATV subscribers have already paid additional subscription on top of the monthly fee just to be able to access event? Isn’t this double jeopardy, making money from both the subscribers and the advertisers?
Regret that’s what Philippine Television is and we at PhilDISH want to change this…