Yes, Mark, agreed. easyJet had the right size aeroplane for Cork all right with the 149 seater. If circumstances had just been a tiny bit different we might have had a least one daily easyJet Gatwick flight and a Dortumd flight a few times a week? The 149 seater would have had a chance to come into it's own.
Pity that EI never saw a potential for Cork 149 seaters? It is likely they would have been just the job for SXF, MUC, MAD etc. Perhaps, even, a North Atlantic version of the A319 to JFK and BOS?
Wishful thinking, of course.