Later this year, Apple will open its first permanent Dublin office at 4/5 Park Place in Dublin, to complement its 6,000-strong Cork campus team which it continues to develop.
The new Dublin office will house 300 people, and will complement the main Apple Cork Campus, according to Cathy Kearney, Apple’s vice-president of European Operations, who has long led Apple operations in Ireland.
“The whole team is very excited, they’re really looking forward to it,” Kearney told SiliconRepublic.com. “We already have a temporary office in Dublin and we have already started hiring, so it is off to a great start. The new office is close to the Iveagh Gardens, and is a really exciting location.”
Kearney explained that the office will house a whole range of activities and a mix of different teams, just as with the 6,000-strong Cork team, and she stressed that the office will be very much part of the wider Ireland operations, rather than a separate entity.
“Our focus to date with the team already there in Dublin is really building the Apple culture, making sure we’re starting that office as complementary to Cork,” said Kearney who has spent some 37 years at Apple. “But basically it’s one organisation, working for Apple, working for our customers, making sure we’re hiring the right talent, making sure we’re building the right culture with the team there, that they really get ingrained in Apple.”
To that end, the existing Dublin team already travels up and down to Cork regularly, meeting their colleagues and attending events, she says, and the management team spends time back and forth with them too.
Cork to the core
While the Dublin office is big news, the Cork campus continues to sit at the core of its European operations. Apple’s largest location outside the US, it has been more than 45 years since Apple opened its manufacturing facility in Cork with 135 team members. Today’s campus houses 6,000 people, with teams across the business – from operations, engineering and manufacturing to procurement, customer support and AppleCare.
Back in 2022 Apple further expanded its Hollyhill campus, opening a state-of-the-art test and engineering facility responsible for testing and analysing its products. Just today the state-of the art Hollyhill 5 building got its official launch by Taoiseach Micheál Martin, while the teams first began moving in back in June.
“I’m delighted to open this state-of-the-art new facility in Hollyhill today and to see first-hand the major investment that Apple is making here,” he said. “The contribution Apple has made in Cork and Ireland over the last 45 years cannot be overstated – creating thousands of highly-skilled roles and continually investing in their Irish operations.”
Watch out for the next episode of The Leaders’ Room podcast, which features Cathy Kearney, Apple’s vice-president of European Operations and Kristina Raspe, Apple’s vice-president of Places.
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