22 Oct 2009
Amelia
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
'A Wing and a Prayer' - The Story of Knock Airport
We're building an airport!
"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.
Top Billed Cast
Monsignor James Horan Self - Knock Parish Priest
Charles Haughey Self - Fianna Fáil (four time) Former Taoiseach
Pádraig Flynn Self - Fianna Fáil Minister of State Department of Transport, 1980-81
Albert Reynolds Self - Fianna Fáil Minister for Transport 1979-81
Jim Mitchell Self - Fine Gael TD Minister for Communications 1984-87
Jim Ryan Self - Airport Design Consultant
Michael O'Malley Self - Mayo County Manager
Joe Murphy Self - Jaycees International, 1981
Paddy O'Toole Self - Fine Gael TD, Mayo East 1977-87
Barry Desmond Self - Labour TD, Minister of State Department of Finance 1981-82
Frank McCullogh Self - Airport Action Committee
Morley Safer Self - CBS '60 Minutes' Reporter
Mary Donoghue Self - Airport Fundraising Volunteer
Maurice Buckby Self - Airport Director, British Airports International
Danny Higgins Self - Managing Director, Celtic Air
Sister Self - Nun
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