Your welcome mate!
About the Cork connections. GSM have connections because they are able to add the extra charges onto the tickets with a good disguise - Business class seats.
With LS, Long Hual flights would only offer Y and Upper economy because of the nature of the airline - strictly LC. (Guessing they would use Upper economy as they would have to charge a fare amount for all Y class!)
If they were to fly LBA,MAN,EDI,NCL,BFS-USA with an all Y class, then there would probably be a stop off point because of the range and weight of the a/c.
Would LOVE to see a BLK-ORK-NYC-ORK-BLK! This would be great for the North West.