Ernest Strathdee presented this report for UTV on the first prawn festival to be held in Northern Ireland at the fishing port of Kilkeel. He interviewed Mr Harry Collins of the Kingdom of the Mournes Development Association on their plans to promote tourism through the festival. Further interviews are held with Freddie Annett and John Henry Doyle, the former the sponsor of a trophy and the latter the winner of it to find the boat with the largest average haul of prawns.
The rest of the piece is a recording of the pageantry surrounding the coronation of the “King” of the Kingdom of Mourne, having first been transported to the harbour by the winning boat in the competition. The king being crowned was, in reality, local character Archie Gordon and the event proved popular with Irish dancing, horseback procession and, of course, a gift of a basket of prawns to his newly anointed majesty.