Knock flying high at 40: ‘It’s the best airport in the world. It’s a different kind of vibe’Journalist Eavan Murray was just a child when she and her family attended the opening of Knock Airport in May 1986. Almost four decades later, she spent a day there talking to long-serving staff and frequent flyers – including one Hollywood star – about Monsignor James Horan’s Mayo ‘miracle’Knock Airport turns 40Eavan Murray Today at 06:30There is a gentle but unmistakable tone of incredulity to the question posed by RTÉ’s Jim Fahy. It is an overcast day on an isolated, barren hilltop in rural east Mayo. Heavy-duty machinery carrying tonnes of rubble whirrs past, as Fahy asks: “Monsignor Horan, what exactly is going on here?”

Source: Irish Independent March 28, 2026 08:00 UTC