At 6 pm on June 18, 2024, as the last civil servants left the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) on Dublin’s Kildare Street to enjoy a pleasant summer evening, they passed a high-powered group of Apple executives entering the landmark 1940s Art Deco building. The company’s delegation included Cathy Kearney, Apple’s vice president of European operations and its Cork base’s veteran top executive. Ivan Doherty, the former secretary general of Fine Gael, now senior advisor for government relations and strategy at the firm’s Californian headquarters, was there too, as was Crispin Mäenpää, Apple’s Brussels-based lobbyist in charge of…

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