Ye were happy to tell everyone else they had to travel via SNN yet when the boot is on the other foot your attitude is somewhat different.
What you don't seem to understand is that Cork doesn't need services to the US, they just want one. Shannon needs services to LHR to serve the West, because it's a vital link for business and leisure.
Cork has its routes to all over Europe to the main hubs like LHR, AMS, and CDG, not to mention others like MUC, FCO and MAD. All SNN had was LHR, and we made do with it. We had connection to the US and Europe and other destinations with BA and so forth, but now we have to haul ourselves over to Cork or Dublin to catch a connecting flight.
If it's so easy for us in Clare to haul ourselves to Cork for a flight to Heathrow, then why are you bitching on about having to drive to Shannon to catch a flight to a destination 5000KM away, when you could just fly to DUB with RE, or is that to much of a hassle for you?
Lets throw all of this on top of EI leasing four LHR slots to CO, in exchange for slots from them at LGW. Four LHR slots that could have been used to launch the service from BFS. With EI up against FR on the DUB-LGW route (plus BA) I don't see tham doing very well.