Winners 2008

In today's age of financial services that shy away from complexity of multi-product, multi-layered offers, www.irishdeposits.ie does exactly what it says on the tin. The site delivers an extensive listing of various deposit instruments available to retail and institutional investors in a clear, simple, time-sensitive and transparent format.

The judges felt that Ireland-guide.com is a really useful web site for anyone travelling in Ireland; well structured, well designed and providing a wealth of interesting and informative content. A site that proves its worth every time you reference it.

This site demonstrate excellent use of illustrations, animations and cleverly written copy directly addressed to the target viewers (8-12 year old patients with heart problems) but also with plenty of useful information for concerned parents, relatives and friends.

This highly interactive Irish designed site, provides a gateway to customers and has made finding a new or used car accessible to visitors at the click of a button from their home. The site includes extra features such as Finance information and Online Credit Application, CO2 emissions and VRT rates and a comprehensive car search facility. The use of easy navigation and flash images makes the search a more enjoyable online experience.

Litriocht is a full-service electronic bookstore dedicated exclusively to selling books in the Irish language. “Gach leabhar Gaeilge i gCló” they proudly claim – “every Irish book in print”. The site is elegant and easy-to-use, delivering a wide range of features and adopting a pragmatic approach for those of us that never really figured the language out. The only viable channel through which to address their target market.

Movies.ie ticks all the boxes. It's is a refreshingly good website with really well produced engaging content. With up-to-date cinema listings, interviews with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars and active discussion forums for people to discuss the latest movies; it's simply a must-visit for any Irish person who is interested in cinema.

Mr Tayto Looking for Love Campaign was chosen for Best Interactive Campaign because it was a recognisable Irish brand utilising online and offline media to build brand awareness in a fun, innovative and interactive way. The campaign was both humorous and inventive and offered the audience a compelling two-way channel to interact with the campaign. It was also noteworthy to see a traditional Irish brand use the new media without compromising their brand’s traditional values.

This is a site that challenged the kitchen-sink approach to online media and delivers the goods. Instead of trying to emulate their rivals, TV3.ie focuses on entertaining, easy to use and uncluttered delivery of broadcast supported via the web. It is engaging, evolving, changing and shows leadership in content and architecture adaptability, showing the great attention to the target audience.

There's nothing boring about these Accountants! A subtle web site that has a well designed home web page to interest the viewer right from the start. The professionally produced introduction video is particularly well done.

The site uses a powerful visual experience, using high spec imagery of the development. The site acts as a brochure and interactive walk through the Chesterfield Blackrock Development. The navigation itself is clean and simple, guiding users easily to key areas of the site.

OSI have created a truly impressive merger of rich content, clear and precise architecture, yielding that optimal mix of educational content and functional form that keeps a viewer engaged, entertained and conditioned for repeat visits. Their seamless blending of rich educational content, extensive applicability to research, streamlined architecture, navigability and clean, unfussy down-to-business presentation distinguish osi.ie as a clear winner in this category.

The style and usability was a key factor in the judges decision for choosing prosperity.ie as this years winner. The new fresh look, easy navigation is what the job searchers require. The clean lines and relevant links makes the difficult task of finding the right leads a simple and pain free experience.

OSI.ie is an excellent example of how to make seemingly mundane subject matter interesting and compelling, with several innovative features which make this a site worthy bookmarking for future repeated use.

In a category that was loaded with dynamic innovation, this site demonstrated a quirky and creative originality that captures the viewer's imagination. While embracing the digital medium, it pays tribute to traditional forms of communication.

Stands out from the pack. Three high profile sites delivered this year: Irish Times, Myhome.ie and Bord Gais. All three show considerable improvements on their previous incarnations: better visually, better usability, and more useful than before.

RedFM have a really clever reason to visit their website. If you like a song you hear on the radio, you can find it later on their website, listen to it again and even buy the MP3. A really fantastic service to their listeners in Cork.

The judges like the seamless integration of committee & member generated content. It is informative with an easily navigated design with up to date event calendar. The website was launched 5 years ago and overall it has significantly enhanced the experience of mountain running in Ireland.

The Head2Head challenge on the Lucozade site invites local sportspeople to compare fitness performance against sportstars like Damien Duff and Ronan O’Gara. The site continues to push the innovation boundary with a great campaign to get people involved in sports performance. It also nicely blends providing online results with running the tests at local sports clubs.

Damien Mulley is probably Ireland's most influential blogger and offers an important alternative voice to the main stream tv and print commentators. It is citizen journalism at its best.

Boards.ie is the public favourite networking site with no shortage of Irish humour, politics and sports on display to name a few areas which are hotly debated as if the future of the nation depended on it. Well the nation voted and boards.ie is the peoples choice for best social networking website.

Kidsafe is a very smart end to end solution that helps parents keep their kids safe from unwanted or bullying text messages or voice calls on their mobile phone. The application has been sensitively-designed from both the child’s and parent’s perspective, ensuring security and usability without drawing attention to itself or feeling intrusive. All in all it solves a very pertinent problem in an innovative and user-friendly way.

With an understated, tasteful and mature subtlety on display in his submitted portfolio piece, the judges believe our young designer is already displaying an impressive natural grasp of the medium as well as an artistic flair.

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This year’s internet hero illustrates Irish entrepreneurship at its freshest and most dynamic state.
At the age of 16 he was determined to become his own boss, so he started a web-design business while still at school. He quickly found a significant gap in the internet market as his customers wanted to know if anyone was visiting their sites. In 1999 he established StatCounter which is now one of the most visited websites in the US. Who would have thought that one of Google’s biggest competitors could be an Irish company run by a 25 year old Dubliner?

With it’s major redevelopment this year TV3.ie came out a worthy winner of the eircom Golden Spider Grand Prix for 2008.