'There is something romantic about an old plane. It wasn’t in me to scrap it'

Eddie O'Sullivan of the Cork Metal Company in the cockpit of vintage plane. Pictures: Noel Sweeney

He has smashed up everything from a jet at Shannon Airport to an old telephone box.

But, when a vintage aircraft linked to one of the greatest movie stars of all time landed in his scrapyard, Eddie O’Sullivan from Cork Metal Company couldn’t bring himself to destroy it.