Apple is the well-documented poster child of Ireland’s immaterial tech trade, formally exporting over $150 billion worth of devices and software through its main Irish subsidiary while only a handful of high-spec Macbooks are still manufactured at its Cork campus.  The iPhone maker’s new video streaming service, Apple TV+, will also show a TV series adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation sci-fi novels currently being filmed by production company Skydance Television at the ever-expanding Troy Studios on the edge of the University of Limerick’s campus.  In the same building just over ten years ago, the last workers were leaving what was…

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