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INTERVIEW Guess What I Do... CHLOE MOLONEY CLARE KILMURRY-IBRICKANE FORWARD / MIDFIELD 24 OPERATIONS & MANUFACTURING IN WILD IRISH SEAWEED. NAME: COUNTY: FOOTBALL CLUB: POSITION: AGE: JOB: GUESS WHAT I DO CHLOE MOLONEY Tell me about your job: So mostly in summertime, a lot of seaweed would be harvested from the ocean. So myself and other harvesters that are in the job go out to the ocean. Mostly, I do it in the summertime and it would be picked in the winter as well. Basically just pick it up off the rocks and bag it off and then it will be brought up to the factory to be cleaned and dried. We'd be supplying worldwide. Our bulk orders would mostly go to likes of Australia, New Zealand, America. So if they order 100 kilos or whatever, it has to be wrapped in a certain way and a certain height so it's not damaged when it goes out there. I would look after that side of things as well. But there is a good bit of work in the packaging of seaweed to get it 100 percent right before being sent. And then also any online orders placed, so if you went on to the Wild Irish Seaweed website and ordered items or gift sets or anything like that, I'd be sending them to you as well. How did you get into your job? Evan Talty, the owner of the business, he was always involved in coaching with me when I was growing up. And then obviously he was over the Clare Ladies the last two years as well. So I always just kind of knew him because he played for my club, Kilmurry-Ibrickane. Then he just offered me the job when I was in college and I just stayed on then after that. Where are you based with your job? It's in Quilty in County Clare, the main factory. What are the best things about your job? The environment here with everybody is really good. Everyone I'm working with gets on really well. But it's also cool to see the product, even like the seaweed baths and stuff like that. If I'm ever speaking to anyone, they're always really interested in what we do with the series and the benefits from it. So it's interesting to tell people about it. Sometimes they buy products from the company as well after I explain. Even the skincare would be a huge one, when it's kind of milled up into a powder and used for a moisturising mask. But the seaweed baths are a huge hit as well. Would you recommend it to budding footballers? I suppose you could. I don't know if many people would have interest in it but you could. 40 | WINTER 2022 / JANUARY 2023 | www.ladiesgaelic.ie