Apple: Manufacturing at the core of Cork presence

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.

That, however, is what you experiences as you enter the iMac manufacturing facility in Hollyhill — an area staff are perhaps more protective and proud of than any other.

It is, after all, the original of the Apple Cork species opened by Steve Jobs more than 30 years ago.