Ireland’s rural airport is booming, thanks to a Colin Farrell movie

Ireland’s Knock airport is now booming after the film The Banshees Of Inisherin gave a boost to the country’s western coast. — Achill Tourism/dpa

Many people in Ireland scoffed at the notion of building an airport on a windswept plateau of bogland in the west of the country. The received wisdom was that it would never get off the ground.

But almost 40 years after the first flights roared up the 2.3km runway at Knock airport, or Ireland West Airport, to use the official name, the facility is not only going strong but reporting soaring traffic.