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#Jobs - A limited number of short-term (2-8 week) internships are available at Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) each year, intended to offer practical experience in fisheries science.

Dates are flexible depending on availability of supervisors and appropriate projects. Typical projects include fish ageing, environmental data entry and fish biology.

This year’s IFI internship slots have been filled, but applications for 2018 positions are now being accepted till the end of November.

Applicants will be selected on the basis of their application; no interviews will be held. For insurance and health and safety reasons, interns cannot usually participate in field work.

Internship applicants should submit a current CV, reference letter from a supervisor and a cover letter explaining their motivation for applying to IFI.

Applications should be sent to [email protected] or by post to:

Intern Application, HR
Inland Fisheries Ireland
3044 Lake Drive
Citywest Business Campus
D24 Y265
Ireland

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William M Nixon has been writing about sailing in Ireland and internationally for many years, with his work appearing in leading sailing publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has been a regular sailing columnist for four decades with national newspapers in Dublin, and has had several sailing books published in Ireland, the UK, and the US. An active sailor, he has owned a number of boats ranging from a Mirror dinghy to a Contessa 35 cruiser-racer, and has been directly involved in building and campaigning two offshore racers. His cruising experience ranges from Iceland to Spain as well as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, and he has raced three times in both the Fastnet and Round Ireland Races, in addition to sailing on two round Ireland records. A member for ten years of the Council of the Irish Yachting Association (now the Irish Sailing Association), he has been writing for, and at times editing, Ireland's national sailing magazine since its earliest version more than forty years ago