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A Wing and a Prayer – The Story of Knock Airport

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Calorie Rating: 73
Released: 1986-09-16
Running Time: 52 Minutes
Homepage: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0215/768106-knock-airport/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1
Studios: RTÉ,


Directed by John Blackman, "A Wing and a Prayer – The Story of Knock Airport" follows the efforts to construct an international airport at Knock in County Mayo during the early 1980s. Originating from a 1981 RTÉ News report, the film charts Monsignor James Horan’s campaign to build a full-length runway in a remote, rural location, documenting the political resistance, changing governments, and repeated setbacks that accompanied the project before the airport’s opening in 1986.

Director / Directors



Cast

Monsignor James Horan
Character: Self - Knock Parish Priest
Charles Haughey
Character: Self - Fianna Fáil (four time) Former Taoiseach
Pádraig Flynn
Character: Self - Fianna Fáil Minister of State Department of Transport, 1980-81

Albert Reynolds
Character: Self - Fianna Fáil Minister for Transport 1979-81
Jim Mitchell
Character: Self - Fine Gael TD Minister for Communications 1984-87
Jim Ryan
Character: Self - Airport Design Consultant

Michael O'Malley
Character: Self - Mayo County Manager
Joe Murphy
Character: Self - Jaycees International, 1981
Paddy O'Toole
Character: Self - Fine Gael TD, Mayo East 1977-87

Barry Desmond
Character: Self - Labour TD, Minister of State Department of Finance 1981-82
Frank McCullogh
Character: Self - Airport Action Committee
Morley Safer
Character: Self - CBS '60 Minutes' Reporter

Mary Donoghue
Character: Self - Airport Fundraising Volunteer
Maurice Buckby
Character: Self - Airport Director, British Airports International
Danny Higgins
Character: Self - Managing Director, Celtic Air

Sister
Character: Self - Nun


Production and Crew

Jim Fahy
Writer
Jim Fahy
Presenter

Seán Ó Méalóid
Production Assistant
Cedric Culliton
Camera Operator
Tony Curnane
Camera Operator

Colm O'Byrne
Camera Operator

Bob Bell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer