“AND they said it couldn’t be done” reads the slogan under the silhouette of Monsignor James Horan, high on a wall in Knock Airport’s lobby. The image is based on that famous photograph of the Mayo priest, arms outstretched, at the official opening of the airport back in 1986.

Scenes from that official opening and the airport’s extraordinary background are documented in RTÉ’s excellent documentary On a Wing and a Prayer, presented by the late Jim Fahy. Someone who walked the proposed site with Horan was the late Claremorris architect Seán Balfe.