Well, where then does the responsibility lie for the design of the new Cork terminal? Does it lie with Mother Ship in Dublin or how much of a hand did the local Aer Rianta/CAA/Cork branch of the DAA (call it what you will) have in what was built?
Certainly, the sense of inclusion of an honest Cork sympathy and a feeling of homeliness which was so much a part of the old terminal at Cork disappeared once the new one opened. It is irrelevant whether visitors accompanying passengers to the airport liked aeroplanes or not but the fact was that with any Aer Lingus, Ryanair, Futura, Lourdes departures from the old terminal the relations were there sometime quite en masse taking it all in and waiting on until the relevant flights departed from within their sight from the Liberty Stream Balcony and yes, sure enough, they sure were buying and using car parks. No doubt about that.
The new landside sure did look quite forlorn last Sunday - it was just so, so empty. It is a pity - the sense of social history and the best kind of tradition that Cork Airport could be so proud of was callously dismissed as being irrelevant to the new era.
What a shame.