Nice is no great surprise. Dubrovnik is more of a surprise; I had expected Rome to be the other one.
From the current timetable, it looks like SNN-AGP and SNN-FAO won't be operated by a Cork-based aircraft this year. However, it doesn't really fit the timings out of Dublin or Belfast either. Now there were rumours of an ASL 737 (although as far as I can see they only have freighters available) operating some services. Base that in Malage for the summer and all sorts of extra capacity could be brought in to any one of Cork, Dublin or Belfast.
What all that means, in a convulted way, is that it may not be a case of dropping some existing rotations to introduce the routes.
Regarding Ryanair, anyone know when we will hear more about Bordeaux, Carcassonne, Reus and Girona?
There appears to be no extra Thursday flight to BCN next summer, just those awful timed flights on Mo We Fr & Su