Cork
In the Autumn of 2004 Cork were in serious negotiations with Ryanair but decided not to give them the terms that they subsequently got from Shannon.
Whether SNN will be able to sustain these extremely genourous terms after the bilateral is changed and the US troop flights dry up is very doubtful. Their costs are huge and the Unions are unwilling to budge.
This has caused the DAA (the real owners of Cork and Shannon) to withdraw the extremely attractive redundancy offer)
Cork seem to be more comfortable dealing with Aerlingus so it looks as if Ryanair will continue to base just one plane there although rumours of a 2nd aircraft continue to surface from time to time. Cork Prestwick or Cork Glasgow with Aerlingus could be on the cards.