LOI Match Reporters Wanted for Goal.com

**AlaskaFox** · 19/02/2013, 11:14 AM

Goal.com Ireland is looking to recruit a highly motivated team of interns to attend and report on League of Ireland matches. Goal.com is the world’s most popular football website, with over 100 million visits per month.

The internship is an unpaid role which aims to provide invaluable experience, allowing you the opportunity to get involved in all sorts of areas of Goal.com. An ability to work on your own while an integral part of our team is crucial to the role.

Role:
• Attending League of Ireland games and providing match reports.
• Interviewing managers and players post-match for analysis.
• Liaising with senior staff to ensure prompt publication of reports.
• Receiving regular feedback and advice to improve your abilities.

What’s in it for you?
• Gain practical experience working in sports journalism, and meeting deadlines.
• Build contacts within the football journalism world.
• Begin your career in sports journalism and enhance your CV.
• The possibility of attending and reporting on European and international games.
• Interns who excel may be considered for other opportunities, including paid roles with Goal.com Ireland and UK.

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to cover Cork, Derry, Drogheda, Dundalk, Limerick, and Sligo to ronan.murphy@goal.com

**nigel-harps1954** · 19/02/2013, 1:29 PM

Don't even get 50 quid on top of your dole?

**BonnieShels** · 19/02/2013, 1:37 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Don't even get 50 quid on top of your dole?

I would love to do it. Shame I'm in Dublin. And it would help out with my degree.

Nige, you should do the Sligo games.

**bluemovie** · 19/02/2013, 1:47 PM

highly motivated, unpaid role.....sounds like most 'job' offers these days.

**Dodge** · 19/02/2013, 2:00 PM

Between Goal and extratime, budding young journos can build up quite the CV without payment.

**srfc1928** · 19/02/2013, 4:06 PM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

I would love to do it. Shame I'm in Dublin. And it would help out with my degree.

Nige, you should do the Sligo games.

Id say they're looking for an unbiased report on games though

**stann** · 19/02/2013, 6:06 PM

Originally Posted by AlaskaFox

to attend and report on League of Ireland matches.

Originally Posted by AlaskaFox

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to cover Cork, Derry, Drogheda, Dundalk, Limerick, and Sligo

To attend and report on 60% of League of Ireland matches then...

**DRDoc** · 19/02/2013, 6:13 PM

Originally Posted by stann

To attend and report on 60% of League of Ireland matches then...

60%! Are you sure your figures are right

**stann** · 19/02/2013, 6:21 PM

55.5555555555% then, Pedantic Pat!
I'm sorry, Doctor Pedantic Pat.

Didn't think a gentle wee pull required any great degree of numerical accuracy, consider me suitably chastened.

**AlaskaFox** · 19/02/2013, 6:34 PM

Originally Posted by stann

To attend and report on 60% of League of Ireland matches then...

We've had plenty of applicants from Dublin, but could do with a few more from the other teams in the league.

**stann** · 19/02/2013, 6:36 PM

Oh my!

**AlaskaFox** · 19/02/2013, 7:20 PM

Yes, us culchies seem to be a dying breed!

**nigel-harps1954** · 19/02/2013, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

I would love to do it. Shame I'm in Dublin. And it would help out with my degree.

Nige, you should do the Sligo games.

I'd be delighted. Of course, their games aren't entertaining in the slightest so I'd just be bored.

**Charlie Darwin** · 19/02/2013, 11:24 PM

Originally Posted by bluemovie

highly motivated, unpaid role.....sounds like most 'job' offers these days.

They always leave out "Use your own time and money to make us higher profits" from the specs. I just can't fathom why. Maybe they're just sillies.

**Charlie Darwin** · 19/02/2013, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by srfc1928

Id say they're looking for an unbiased report on games though

I doubt it. They're just looking for hits.

**BonnieShels** · 19/02/2013, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

I doubt it. They're just looking for hits.

Then you'd think they'd send more people to Pats games in that case.

**Dodge** · 20/02/2013, 9:56 AM

Originally Posted by BonnieShels

Then you'd think they'd send more people to Pats games in that case.

as he said...

Originally Posted by AlaskaFox

We've had plenty of applicants from Dublin.

Wonder what percentage of writers for Goal Ireland are voluntary at the moment. if the journos get on to their nearest asian bookie, they could probably get a few quid while they're there.

**Longfordian** · 20/02/2013, 10:01 AM

Somewhere in the region of 100%, give or take 0.01%, I'd say.

**BonnieShels** · 20/02/2013, 10:01 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

as he said...

Ah Dodge. Now now.

Ya can't let an easy quip like that go abegging. Open goal and all that.

**gormacha** · 20/02/2013, 10:31 AM

Originally Posted by AlaskaFox

Goal.com Ireland is looking to recruit a highly motivated team of interns to attend and report on League of Ireland matches. Goal.com is the world’s most popular football website, with over 100 million visits per month.

If ye get that many visits, why don't you employ (you know, with a wage an all that) somebody properly to do these roles? Without content, ye're nothing. You'd think that fact would merit you actually employing people.