And now for the shipping news. It appears that the Port of Cork are hard at work trying to get a passenger & car ferry to sail from a port in the north of Spain to Cork for next year's summer season.
Hardly aviation news really, of course, but a part of me just cant help wondering whether a certain other party and their nearby maritime cohorts would try to poach that away too from the Cork area.
There was a mug that contacted the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork's local 96FM radio about two weeks ago. Guess what this guy's gripe was? You are going to love this! This ghoul was complaining that the earliest public transport could get him to snn in the morning from Cork was 9 am so missing the first raft of departures by the world's favourite airline!
How much harder is it for Cork Airport dealing with a mentality like that - is it any wonder there has been no transatlantic/long haul destinations etc down the years?
Not too much else going on at Cork lately. The Mint 757 did an Air Mediterreane flight from Lourdes this morning. Only for some bizjets from the likes of Netjets it would have been on the soft side recently for new visitors.
One other bit of good news for anyone visiting Cork is that the city centre area around the main street, Patrick Street, is looking so handsome now at the moment as the recent substantial building refurbishments around Dunnes Stores and the Academy Street area come to an end. It really looks very well indeed and well worth a visit and if it was Galway, Dublin, Limerick or anywhere else there would be some great crowing about it but what do we get instead in Cork?
A whinge about when the first bus gets to snn! It could only happen in Cork!
