Irish Examiner View: When tech can be the Apple of our eye

Skills investment in Cork plant

Apple has opened a new engineering and test facility at its Hollyhill plant in Cork. Picture; David Creedon / Anzenberger.

The rapid and ever-expanding impact of technology upon the lives of everyone takes another great leap forward, sometimes with consequences which are entirely munificent, and on other occasions, perhaps not so much.

First, the good news for Ireland is that Apple, Cork’s major employer with more than 6,000 staff, has opened a new multi-million euro engineering and test facility at the Hollyhill campus, testimony to more than 40 years of expertise and skill built up locally. The facility in the former Banta warehouse, acquired in 2020, will test and analyse products for the whole of Europe. It is only the third such site the company operates in the world.