Sarah FinnanHave you ever heard the one about the boys who ran away from home on a 747? Don’t worry, up until recently, I hadn’t either. But it’s quite the story, so settle in and get comfortable.tells the tale of two Irishmen and their hunger for adventure. Reminiscing about one of their greatest escapades to date, the clip recalls how they once stowed away on an international flight to NYC… even getting themselves a personal guided tour of the city upon arrival.
Filmmaker Gary Daly was amongst those to have read about the story some years later. Intrigued by how the duo managed to pull off such a feat, he reached out to the two men, and thuswas born. A mix of “grainy archival footage” and more recent interviews with the men, both now “middle-aged and grey-haired” asCombing through endless newspaper clippings, YouTube videos, and old Irish interviews, Daly admitted that “it was a big challenge to do the archive and find everything that matched”.
“Air India put Byrne and Murray up in a gigantic suite at a five-star hotel and plied them with McDonald’s and movies,” the article continues. VERY Kevin McCallister “I’m eating junk and watching rubbish” vibes. “I was never in a hotel before, so it was brilliant,” Murray says in the short film. The same security guards were tasked with supervising the boys for the next few days. Asking them why they had come all this way, Byrne and Murray said it was because they wanted to meet the character B.