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 which it continues to develop.
The new Dublin office will accommodate 300 people, and will complement the larger Apple Cork Campus, according to Cathy Kearney, Apple’s vice president of European Operations, who has long led Apple’s operations in Ireland.
“The whole team is very excited, looking forward to it,” Kearney told SiliconRepublic.com. “We already have a temporary office in Dublin and we’ve already started hiring, so we’re off to a good start. The new office is close to Iveagh Gardens, and it’s a very exciting place.”
Kearney explained that the office would include a whole range of jobs and a mix of different teams, just like the 6,000-strong Cork team, and stressed that the office would be part of wider Irish operations, rather than a separate entity.
“What we’ve focused on so far with the team that’s already there in Dublin is building the Apple culture, making sure we start that office as a complement to Cork,” said Kearney who has spent 37 years at Apple. “But it’s actually one organization, working for Apple, working for our customers, making sure we’re hiring the right talent, making sure we’re building the right culture and team there, so that they’re fully integrated into Apple.”
To that end, the existing Dublin team travels up and down to Cork regularly, meeting colleagues and attending events, he says, and the management team spends time going back and forth with them.
Cocoa in the middle
While the Dublin office is big news, the Cork campus continues to sit at the heart 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 is home to 6,000 people, with teams across the business – from operations, engineering and manufacturing to purchasing, customer support and AppleCare.
Back in 2022 Apple continued to expand its Hollyhill campus, opening a state-of-the-art testing facility and engineering center responsible for testing and analyzing its products. Just today the high-rise building Hollyhill 5 was officially launched by Taoiseach Micheál Martin, while parties began to move back in June.
“I’m excited to open this new state-of-the-art facility in Hollyhill and to see first-hand the huge investment Apple is making here,” he said. “The contribution Apple has made to Cork and Ireland over the past 45 years cannot be overstated – creating thousands of highly skilled roles and continuing to invest in their Irish operations.”
Note the following passage of The Leadership Room podcastfeatures Cathy Kearney, Apple’s vice president of European Operations and Kristina Raspe, Apple’s vice president of Locations.
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