Shannon doesn't have an Amsterdam service or Knock doesn't have connectivity to a major Hub. Yet no one is asking them to throw in the towel or to stop having fantasys about securing them in the future.
Shannon in County Clare has 6 transatlantic flights a day in the Summer Season. Logic Seldom applies in Irish Aviation but on that basis, Cork should surely be able to support a 757 service 3 times per week.
I know the excuse about lack of pre-customs clearance is now being put forward as a successor to the one about the stopover but that doesn't stop thousands of people from flying to the US through LHR each year.