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'A Wing and a Prayer' - The Story of Knock Airport

We're building an airport!

16 Sep 1986
  • Ireland
52 mins
10
1 votes
  • Documentary
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"We're building an airport", Monsignor James Horan tells Jim Fahy of RTÉ News, in 1981. The bold story of a 'simple' country priest, with a dream to build a 7500ft runway for an international airport, on a "foggy, boggy hill" in and around Barnacahoge and Barnalyra, Co. Mayo. A feat few thought possible. It began as a one off news item, and develops into a charming documentary, written by Fahy and directed by Blackman over the years. The changing governments, all get caught up in the chaos, and almost nobody in power wanted it to go ahead. This controversial campaign to put Connacht on the map, faces setback after setback. But none great enough, to stop this "old man in a hurry" from getting his airport for the province, opened to the public by 1986.
  • Monsignor James Horan

    as Self - Knock Parish Priest
  • Charles Haughey

    as Self - Fianna Fáil (four time) Former Taoiseach
  • Pádraig Flynn

    as Self - Fianna Fáil Minister of State Department of Transport, 1980-81
  • Albert Reynolds

    as Self - Fianna Fáil Minister for Transport 1979-81
  • Jim Mitchell

    as Self - Fine Gael TD Minister for Communications 1984-87
  • Jim Ryan

    as Self - Airport Design Consultant
  • Michael O'Malley

    as Self - Mayo County Manager
  • Joe Murphy

    as Self - Jaycees International, 1981
  • Paddy O'Toole

    as Self - Fine Gael TD, Mayo East 1977-87
  • Barry Desmond

    as Self - Labour TD, Minister of State Department of Finance 1981-82
  • Frank McCullogh

    as Self - Airport Action Committee
  • Morley Safer

    as Self - CBS '60 Minutes' Reporter

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