We're building an airport!
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.
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Cast
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
Mary Donoghue
As Self - Airport Fundraising Volunteer
Maurice Buckby
As Self - Airport Director, British Airports International
Danny Higgins
As Self - Managing Director, Celtic Air
Sister
As Self - Nun
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