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First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
['Ciaran Tierney']
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They could hear other people talking, but they couldn’t radio out to anybody,” said Mr. Kenny, of Kenny’s Bookshop in Galway, this week.
A policeman in Clifden tipped off Tom ‘Cork’ Kenny, then editor of the Connacht Tribune newspaper in Galway, about the unusual arrival.
Kenny’s grandfather brought the two men to Galway, where there was a superior radio system to the one in Clifden.
From Galway, Kenny was able to radio the story of the historic first transatlantic flight to newspapers all over the world.
As reporters from all over the world flocked to Galway, Tom ‘Cork’ Kenny brought them in the opposite direction.