As part of a major bid to boost tourism in the mid west, semi-state companies are investing in a project that could bring at least one of the big flying boats back to Foynes, Limerick.
Report shows archive of flying boats at Foynes.
Interview with Hilary Watson, British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), on Foynes aviation history.
Photographs in Foynes Aviation Museum.
Interview with Brian Cullen, Foynes Aviation Museum, on the project which could bring boats back.
Helicopter carrying part of a Sunderland Flying Boat which crashed during World War II and parts of plane from Foynes Aviation Museum Video.
Interview with David Brice, BOAC, on difficulties of landing a flying boat.
The reporter is Andrew Kelly.
Some of the footage in this report is not owned by RTÉ.
