A tiny island off a seashore of Ireland is looking for dual people to run the coffee shop

If we and a crony are looking for a job, The Great Blasket Island has a tender for you. The tiny island off a seashore of Ireland announced progressing this month that it’s seeking dual people to male a coffee shop.

“A singular position compulsory — looking for prolonged tenure government of Island Accommodation and Coffee Shop. Couple or dual friends,” a island’s chatter comment wrote, in a post that has given left viral.

The position runs from Apr 1 to October, and accommodation and food will be provided, according to a posting. Any meddlesome field are destined to email “Alice” during a island’s ubiquitous email account: info@greatblasketisland.net.

In an email to CBS News, a island’s dual employees, Alice and Billy, explained they are looking for a “fit, overworked and eager duo,” to offer breakfast, hoop turnover of accommodation for new arrivals, run a coffee shop, purify a duck coop, H2O a plants and light fireplaces for guests.

Tourists can stay in 3 of a 5 friendly cottages on a island, that have no electricity or prohibited showers. There is, however, a tiny breeze turbine that can be used to assign a phone or laptop, a email read. Laundry will be taken off a island, cleared and returned.

The dual new employees will live above a coffee shop.

While using a coffee emporium on a small, little-known island might sound bleak, one demeanour during photos of a island might change your mind. The tiny land of green, rolling hills and pleasing stone formations is located 3 miles off a tip of Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula.

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A print from a island’s tourism site shows a “common dolphin on track to a Great Blasket Island by George Karbus.”

George Karbus / greatblasketisland.net


The tourism website offers vessel tours and promises a revisit with a island’s residential dolphin, Dingles. Tourists might also mark whales, porpoises and sea birds. In ease weather, tourists might be means to see some puffins, according to The Great Blasket Island website.

The debate page also boasts that “a interrelated Tea/Coffee is supposing for all a customers” — that might be where a coffee emporium manager comes in.

If a smell of coffee and a sound of waves crashing opposite rocks appeals to you, find a crony and email Alice.