With Cork being the largest county in the country, you might expect a reasonable responsible government to plan infrastructure accordingly as time passes and things develop. A big picture. You would expect that nationally too, not just pointing at Cork. But our government, past, present and future, IMHO, is not competent and never will be to take a long term view. Sadly that's only ever done on the private side.
Cork is high tech area, attracting a lot of companies and its happening across the country too in other cities. . They still come despite the rubbish flights and lousy infrastructure. Maybe the government might get the hint. Probably not though.