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.

Apple’s newest addition to its Hollyhill campus is a shimmering three-storey structure known as Building Five that sits in stark contrast to the smaller, older red-brick constructions that made up the original site.

There’s something a little odd about ambling through the only Apple-owned manufacturing facility in the world, watching man and machine combine to build products destined for every corner of Europe, all against the unmistakable backdrop of Cork voices more readily associated with the terraces of the old Páirc Uí Chaoimh.