Budapest
Malev used ORK BUD to feed their hub and also to cater for City Breakers.
Wizzair or Aerlingus would be a point to point service and would be even less viable than the Malev service particularly as the novelty of heading off to Central Europe for a weekend break or a Stag Party seems to wearing off.
In hindsight Sky Europe's low cost service to Bratislavia may have hastened the departure of Malev given that Budapest is only two hours by rail from the Slovak Capital.
Now they too are bowing from both Cork and Dublin.
There is also evidence that Cork people got used to the extremely low fares from the 2004--2006 era and now consider anything over €150 to be too expensive. Yield managers won't be happy if this attitude prevails.