Cork
World Class Location for FDI
COST
ACCESSIBILITY
IT salaries are 10-15% lower than Dublin, with lower
Cork International Airport, is located less than 9
attrition levels.
Cost of living is 23% lower versus Dublin.
TALENT
Cork is home to 146 overseas companies that
directly employ over 30,000 people. Almost 50%
of the multinational workforce are employed in
the technology sector.
Many of the large multinationals in Cork have an
EMEA IT function, including; Apple, EMC, Tyco,
Qualcomm and Intel Security.
Between University College Cork and Cork Institute
of Technology there was over 3000 graduates in
IT related courses in 2015.
miles from EPARK has over 190 flights each week
to 140 destinations including London Heathrow,
London Gatwick, Amsterdam, Paris and Munich.
M8 Motorway 2 hrs 30 minutes’ drive to Dublin
International Airport.
Express train service to Dublin in 2 hrs 15 mins.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Cork is well served from a power capacity perspective,
while the current demand for large scale power
access in Dublin is much greater than the available
supply.
Cork is being transformed from a connectivity
perspective with the landing of the Hibernia Express
cable and the proposed IFSC cable between Cork
PEDIGREE
and France. In addition, Aurora Telecom are building
Apple’s largest campus outside the US is located in
a dark fibre network between Cork and Dublin.
Cork with over 6,000 employees. EMC have been
Both are expected to be operational by the end
in Cork for 25 years and employ over 3,000 people.
of 2017.
Many of the world’s leading technology companies
call Cork home, including: Amazon; VMWare; Tyco;
QUALITY OF LIFE
Intel Security; Blizzard and Dell Software.
Ease in attracting international talent and an
February 2016 the Financial Times named Cork
as the the best small city in Europe for its Foreign
excellent expatriate experience.
A typical work journey is less than 30 minutes.
Direct Investment strategy.
Technology Companies with a significant presence in Cork
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