IAA announce recruitement of trainee officers for Ballygireen

For the first time in it's history, the Irish Aviation authority (IAA) will train it's own radio officers for it's High Frequency (HF) communications centre at Ballygireen Co. Clare. Previously officers were recruited from the Merchant Navy but this year the IAA began a recruitment process which involved selecting juct 12 candidates from 900 applications from around Ireland.

Commenting on the new jobs announcement, Eamonn Brennan, chief executive, IAA said: “This is the first large scale recruitment at Ballygirreen for many years. Despite the economic downturn and the consequent reduction in the number of flights, the IAA needed to recruit trainee radio officers so as to be prepared for retirements which are due to take place over the next few years.”

HF communications is a very important income earner for the IAA which provides voice communications with approximately 1,000 aircraft every day in the eastern half of the North Atlantic.