For future travellers to the British Isles

When we were looking at airfares to Ireland and various places around the British Isles, we found out something: flying to Shannon, Ireland was cheaper than flying to any other airport in the UK (and cheaper than Dublin too). Then, ryan air has CHEAP flights to other places around the British Isles.

We flew Continental to Shannon and stayed in Ireland, but we could have flown to Manchester, England, for about 30 dollars each. Flying to Shannnon was about $700 each. I think flying directly to Manchester was at least $1000 each. So it's worth checking into...