Cork peoples attitude to this is shocking but with the village mentality they have down there and the large chip on their shoulders, to be expected.
Nice to see you hold us Cork folk in such high esteem. I know Shannon people will never appreciate the huge damage that successive Governments favouritism towards Shannon has done to Cork Airport. Shannon will survive without LHR. People from North Kerry/Limerick can just as easily travel to Cork and people from Galway/Mayo can travel to Dublin. However people will still be able to transfer via JFK and DUB. EI still have codeshare agreements with American Airlines on many routes from JFK, and wasn't there talk of a new codeshare agreement with Jet Blue?