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Are you suggesting Cathay offer a fifth freedom EDI-DUB flight? I don't think they have the right. If they reintroduced DUB you could just do it with Aer Lingus being part of OW.
I would love for them to come somewhere further north than Manchester for a direct though since the second-tier UK airports already have good connecting options. From Newcastle for example you can connect via other airlines to HKG in not only London but Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Dubai. However, flying from Edinburgh would be an attractive alternative if direct.
Most of these secondary European airports have a market that is too small to fill a nonstop longhaul airplane from/to HKG or any other Asian destination.
QR has been quite successful there. They offer flights from DUB and EDI. EK has 2 daily from DUB. But that is because they gather pax in EDI/DUB flying to a lot of other destinations than HKG.
Of course, there are also other options by European airlines via LHR, CDG, FRA,..
I don't see how EDI or DUB could be served nonstop by CX in the foreseeable future. And any HKG-DUB-EDI-HKG, or the like, is unfeasible as they would nee a specific crew for the DUB-EDI.