Sorry Jamie, I`m not getting into that on a public forum but there have been several large investment projects in recent years that Cork has been passed over due to lack of connectivity to Cork.
However, a recent example of US divestment from Cork that is in the public forum was the transfer of the EMC technology demonstration centre from Cork to a location near Heathrow last year. The Cork based employees were offered either a transfer to London or redundancy.
You know losses have been outweighed by gains.
You really reckon EMC moved to London was totally based on air access, clearly DUB's Euro and US networks weren't enough either so they would not of stayed in Cork with a few times weekly service to JFK or BOS. Locating to their UK HQ makes a lot of sense commercially for such a company.
Need to be realistic about it, there was a lot more to that move!