Ryanair also presented a package of routes to Cork that included Beauvais around late 2004 but it fell through and they opted for Shannon instead. They did introduce Liverpool at this time. As I previously said the Easyjet package was all but agreed but for some reason it didn't happen. This was shortly before the regime change at Cork in early 2005 so it's hard to get a handle on the facts. Traffic then grew by 50% until the 2008 peak but most of the growth was generated by Aerlingus and very little by the low cost airlines.