EMC announces 350-job expansion

COMPUTER storage giant EMC announced plans yesterday to locate up to 350 hi-tech jobs in Cork’s newest office campus.

One of Munster’s biggest private employers, the Ovens-based company said the jobs in a recently acquired division will be based in O’Flynn Construction’s new 12,000 square metre office campus at the Ballincollig Town Centre, less than a mile from its European headquarters.

The Barracks Square campus, which is being built around the town’s historic Murphy Barracks parade square, has the potential to create at least another 800 jobs, bringing total employment in the office development alone to almost 1,200, said O’Flynn Construction managing director Michael O’Flynn.