Apple expansion offers jobs boost

There are hopes of a major IT jobs boost in Cork City following the rezoning of a former Traveller halting site near Apple computer’s European headquarters.
Apple expansion offers jobs boost

City councillors voted unanimously to rezone the former St Anthony’s site in Hollyhill — in the shadow of the Apple facility — from residential to business and technology use.

The vote, which unlocks the site’s full potential, was one of the final elements of a major masterplan for the Hollyhill area, which has already seen the development of a new ring road around the Apple campus, the disposal of land near the Apple plant to the IDA to facilitate recent expansion at the Apple plant, and the construction of a state-of-the-art Traveller housing scheme.

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