Yes. But presently it doesn't get that coverage so does not have the same recognition as other sports and therefore Joey will never be as widely known as George Best or John Lennon.

You're ignoring the fact that Best was the first "celebrity" footballer. And a known party boy, womaniser and alcoholic. The complete opposite of Joey. A man who shied away from the limelight. A guy who people asked "he was doing what?" when he got his award for humanitarian work because he didn't make a song and dance about what he was doing. Just got in his van and went.

And as for John Lennon. John Lennon was in a pop band and from Liverpool. Has fuck all to do with Northern Ireland except when he was offering to do benefit gigs for the IRA and marching in support of the IRA while hypocritically professing to be for peace.

He also doesn't have any particular association with Aldergrove unlike Best and Lennon who are strongly linked to the cities that have airports named after them.

It's the international they want to name. I can't think of a better Northern Irish representative to name our international airport after. An apolitical and anti-sectarian sportsman. It makes sense that the city airport is named after Best. He was from the city. But who do we really want our international airport named after? Lord Bannside?

If the point is to honour Joey the name something after him that relates to his achievements preferably in the places associated with him.

They have done on the IOM. 26th milestone marker. Joey's bend. Now maybe they can do it here with the airport. I know I'd rather have the international named after someone like Joey, than after a bigot who was made a Lord, an alcoholic snooker player who drank himself to poverty and death or a footballer who jumped the queue for a liver transplant which was performed on the NHS despite the fact he was still drinking and then continued to drink himself to death.