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'A Wing and a Prayer' - The Story of Knock Airport(1986)
"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.
"We're building an airport!"
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John BlackmanDirector
Monsignor James HoranSelf - Knock Parish Priest
Charles HaugheySelf - Fianna Fáil (four time) Former Taoiseach
Pádraig FlynnSelf - Fianna Fáil Minister of State Department of Transport, 1980-81
Albert ReynoldsSelf - Fianna Fáil Minister for Transport 1979-81
Jim MitchellSelf - Fine Gael TD Minister for Communications 1984-87
OriginIreland
Languagesen
CompaniesRTÉ