Apple boost for city

APPLE COMPUTERS is bringing 400 more jobs to Cork city centre, swelling its workforce at Half Moon Street to as much as 800.

The company, which now employs around 3,000 people in Cork and which is about to embark on an expansion of its Hollyhill facility to cater for 500 new jobs, has started fitting out extra office space in the Half Moon Street building, off Academy Street and Lavitt’s Quay.

Along with Boots, there could be as many as 1,000 jobs in this building by year’s end, and, in tandem with the Opera Lane retail development, it will account for 1,500 city centre jobs.