The European headquarters of the world’s biggest company employs 4,000 workers in Cork, and today Tim Cook announced the creation of a further 1,000 jobs at the site. Peter O’Dwyer got a rare look inside the global tech giants’ Cork plant earlier this year.

Much of the Apple campus is as you might expect, with floors populated by rows of desks, a manufacturing facility that looks very much like any other and an array of common areas where workers can eat, chat, and go about a day’s work.