Clifden festival recalls historic transatlantic flight

When John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown crash-landed into a Connemara bog almost a century ago, it was a Cork-born journalist who broke the news of their non-stop transatlantic flight to the rest of the world.

Tom ‘Cork’ Kenny’s scoop in June 1919 was recalled in Clifden, Co Galway, yesterday when his grandson Tom joined British ambassador to Ireland Robin Barnett in welcoming a statue of the two aviators.