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    • The AirportIreland West Airport Knock (formerly known as Knock Airport) is one of the great against-the-odds success stories of modern Ireland. The idea of an airport for the Knock region was mooted as early as 1935, and Father James Horan was part of a delegation from the Knock Development Association which, during the 1960s, sought in vain an airstrip to cater for pilgrims. When the project got going in the wake of Pope John Paul II‘s visit to Knock in 1979, it was much derided, called a ‘white elephant’ and was the subject of much political controversy. The proposal got government backing in 1980, and the first sod was cut by Minister for Transport Albert Reynolds the following year, but many obstacles had to be overcome before the first commercial flights took off in 1985. The airport was officially opened in May 1986, months before Monsignor Horan, the airport’s driving force, died in Lourdes. Within two years, annual passengers numbers had exceeded 100,000, and that figure had doubled by the turn of the century. The first snow and ski charters took off from the airport in 2004, and the airport reached the milestone of over half a million annual passengers the…
    • Mgr James HoranThe driving force behind the establishment of the airport, James Horan (1911-1986) was born in Tooreen, in the parish of Partry, in west County Mayo, the son of a farmer and tradesman. He was the eldest of seven children – four girls and three boys. He attended primary school in Partry and won a scholarship to St Jarlath’s Diocesan College in Tuam, County Galway. In 1929, he went to Maynooth College to train for the priesthood, and was ordained in 1936. He spent three years in Glasgow, in the parish of Dumbarton, and in 1939, he returned home to become Chaplain to the Franciscan monastery in Ballyglunin, in the Archdiocese of Tuam. After only two months there, he was transferred to Tiernea in the parish of Carraroe in County Galway, where he became fluent in the Irish language. In 1944 he returned to his native Mayo, working as a curate in Tooreen in the parish of Aghamore. He was responsible for the introduction of electricity to the area, and was probably best known at that time as the promoter of Tooreen Hall. After 14 years in Tooreen, Fr Horan left in July 1959 to go to his next parish, Cloonfad.…
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Posted on October 10th, 2010 by admin
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Narrator/Director Tommy Marren
Musical Director Lavinia Gilmartin
Young Horan Patrick Lacken
Mons. Horan Ollie Rouse
Judy Coyne Cynthia Clampett
Ellen Deirdre O’Meara
Padraig Flynn/Garret FitzGerald/Frank Forde Barry Desmond
Charlie Haughey/Pope John Paul 11 Pat Feeley
Cathal Duffy Kieran Coen
Jim Ryan Martin Curry
Sean Balfe Matt McLoughlin
John Healy Anthony Walshe
Frank Harrington Pat Doyle
Tom Neary Michael Rice
Jim Fahy John McLoughlin
Jim Mitchell Aidan Higgins
Christy Moore Gerry Scanlon
Our Lady Mary Marren
Dana Amanda Browne
Showband Singer Brendan Rice
Harpist/Vocalist Frankie Forde-Waldron
Pianist Brendan McGuinness
Soloists Brendan McGuinness, Louise Maloney, Amanda Browne, Cian Harrison, Ciaran Hopkins

Supporting cast:
Colette McHale, Ciaran Hopkins, Tommy Heveran, Valerie Neary, Danny Leonard, Oisin Ryan, Kamil Mikolajcyk, Rebecca Casey, Laura Hunt, Una Hunt-Gorman, Cian Harrison, Valerie Neary, Deirdre McNicholas, Enda Judge, Jerome Chambers, Fred Finley, Robert McKinley, Erin Rice, Danielle Hunt, Rebecca Casey, Laura Hunt, Fiona Hiney, Deirdre Chambers, Claire Irwin, Karen Jacob, Megan Munnelly, Aine Lawlor, Caitlin O’Malley, Seamus O’Gorman, Cian Moyles, Siofra Murray, Roisin Langan, Ann McNeely, Cillian O’Boyle, Jack Duffy, Darragh Jordan, Fred Finley, Maureen Lacken, Tommy Heveran, Joan O’Gorman, Ben Bourke, Mary Henry, Patricia Bourke, Cora Barrett, Beryl Slevin, Pauline Leonard, Carmel Hughes, Anna Muggridge, Martina Naughton, Eileen Corrigan, Caitriona Doyle, Collette McGuiness, Valarie Neary, Ann Donnelly, Maria Cadden, Noel Henry, Tommy Canavan, Maureen Canavan, Margaret Devine, Raymond Devine, John Brennan, Martina Brennan, Brendan Conwell, Geraldine Clarke, Damien Slater, Michael Judge, Killian Flynn, Beverley Stafford, Phil Doherty, Alina Mikolajczyk, Gemma Ryan, Rebecca Langan, Niamh Murray, Carol Freeley, Katie O’Malley, Katya Harrison, Geraldine Browne, Claire McDermott, Edel Doherty, Mary Moore

Stage Manager: Aileen Harrison
Set Design & Props: Eileen Slevin

Stage Crew:
Ann Corcoran, Melaine Cassidy, Helen Green, Hubert McMorrow, Padric Lynn, Sean Lynn, Damian Ruddy, Charlene Barrett
Sean C. Gaughan, Caroline Sharkey,Mark Lynn, Fion Ryan

Wardrobe Mistress: Maggie Gorman and Geraldine Langan
Sound: Frankie McDonnell, Teresa Cosgrove
Lighting: Paul Marren and Tony Burden
Photographs: Slater Photographers
Backing Tracks: Dennis McCalmont and Francis Ryan
Music Technicians: Kassi Gorman and Emma Doherty

SONGS FEATURED IN MUSICAL

Act 1

Mover of Mountains
(Tom Devere/Terry Reilly)
Our Lady of Knock
(Dana Rosemary Scallon)
If I can help Someone
(Terry Reilly/Dennis McCalmont)
Danny Boy
James House Rock
(Terry Reilly /Dennis McCalmont)
We’ve got to get to the Pope
(Tommy Marren/Terry Reilly)
Totus Tuus
(Dana Rosemary Scallon)
I do Have a Plan
(Tommy Marren/Terry Reilly)
Act 2
The Mayo Anthem
(Terry Reilly/Dennis McCalmont)
Foggy Boggy Hill
(Terry Reilly/Dennis McCalmont)
The Jumbo Draw
(Terry Reilly/Dennis McCalmont)
The Airport Song
(Christy Moore)
Hot Spot in Oz
(Terry Reilly/Dennis McCalmont)
Always Be Right by Your Side
(Tommy Marren)
The West’s Awake
(Thomas Davis)
On A Wing and a Prayer
(Terry & Mary Reilly/Dennis McCalmont)
Moonlight in Mayo
(Jack Mahoney/Percy Wenrich)
Auld Lang Syne
(Robert Burns)
Airport song reprise
Danny Boy reprise
Lion of Partry
(Rory Bourke/Terry Reilly)
A Man of the People
(Tommy and Mary Marren)
Backing Tracks: Dennis McCalmont and Francis Ryan
Musical Director: Lavina Gilmartin
Full details in Souvenir Programme
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