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> A large fraction of an entire city (Cork) depend on it That is not true. They employee a few thousand people in an industrial estate outside a suburb of cor
by rusk 6y ago
> A large fraction of an entire city (Cork) depend on it
That is not true. They employee a few thousand people in an industrial estate outside a suburb of cork in fairly low ranking jobs. If they were to disappear overnight they would doubtless have an impact but not a fraction of €14bn
- secondcoming 6y agoNot these days perhaps, but back in the 1990's it would have. Who else was there, EMC? And if Apple did leave it's not unrealistic that the reasons that made them leave would also be on the minds of the other multinationals in the area.
- rusk 6y agoIMO this sounds like fairly shaky ground to build your economy on
- Supernaut 6y agoHistory demonstrates otherwise. Apple has had facilities in Ireland since 1979. Most of the Apple IIs that were sold in Europe were built in Cork.
- secondcoming 6y agoSure was, but 1980's Ireland had pretty much no economy at all. Emigration was an expectation, not a privilege. The country needed all it could get. And it eventually did very well, then screwed it up in the Global Financial Crisis, but now seems to be doing quite well (until Brexit starts to have an effect).
- rusk 6y agoThat was 40 years ago, and it brought real actual manufacturing to these shores. The situation nowadays is very different.