Winners 2011

The site is a real goldmine of essential tourist information. It offers the user a fun but captivating journey of what the region has to offer. The site also provides you with special discounts and the opportunity to book directly with the service provider.

The site is beautifully designed and marries logical navigation with strong pictorial elements, an events calendar and an on-line shop are just some of the elements which add to making this a winner.

This site is well constructed, is easy to use and simple to navigate. This site delivers a number of clear calls to action and ensures that that the visitor will keep returning.

The site has a clean fresh look which makes it easy for the user to navigate and see exactly what is on offer for them. The design is attractive and the site also makes good use of social media tools.

The Judges found this campaign fun, engaging, creative and it had great personality. All of the ingredients which make up successful online campaigns were evident in spades; good creative, super online and offline integration and a consistent online message across social, email, mobile and search.

This is a great site, full of interesting and timely content with a growing audience. Simple layout makes it easy to use and interactivity is encouraged through polls and audience comment. Video and social media tools are all to found here too.
Excellent content – well displayed.

The site is user friendly, really informative and aims to encourage students to empower their voice and their opinions on how their course could be improved.

The work of this Web Design and Development Agency is creative, attention grabbing, and engaging. Their referral sites employed excellent use of soft colours and imaginative visuals to promote and provide information on the two organisations in diverse areas

This site bridges the gap between TV and the Internet. Simple to use, inviting and well laid out access for Internet users to all the latest TV programs. Find the programs that pique your interest and click straight in for the best of both worlds.

This website is interesting, relevant, neatly designed, boasts beautiful photography and compelling, well written content.

This site has a web presence that is perfectly suited to their target market in advertising, marketing and creative design recruitment. The site excels in its design, content, navigation, appropriate use of video, and easily readable copy.

This sites allows users to find the perfect musical match in their locality for their Wedding, Corporate function or Private Party. The judges liked the user interface and the context-specific, simple search functionality.
Clean, simple, and easy to use, Bandpages is a clear category winner.

This site makes scanning the news of the day easy and enjoyable for those of us that don't have the time to sit down and read for long periods at a time. Multiple articles are succinct and interesting with good, complementary use of photos and videos. Where news has been aggregated the appropriate links are readily accessible.

This has excellent usability and navigation. It is Stylishly presented with great functionality. This marriage of focused security and consumer innovation has delivered this year’s Industry leading mobile application.

The site is great, easy to navigate, has great accessibility and is the first nationwide database of cleaners of all types in Ireland. This website has changed the way we now source a household cleaner.

Ray Nolan is a serial internet entrepreneur and has been instrumental in the success of a number of companies in the Irish technology sector. He founded Raven Computing (later known as Coretime Ltd) in 1989. Coretime was sold to Sage in 2004. In 1999, he really went from one triumph to another when he founded the hugely successful online room reservation group Web Reservations International (Hostelworld.com). He developed Hostelworld into a leading brand for online travel accommodation with over 50,000 accommodation providers and offices in Sydney, Australia, San Mateo, California and Shanghai. He is currently Chairman of RevaHealth.com, a search engine for consumer health clinics. In 2009, he also founded worky.com, a place to promote yourself, connect with people and share opportunities including work, new business or a new job.

This year’s grand prix winner, TheJournal.ie, is a site that demonstrated relevance, usability and superb innovation. It has taken the traditional mechanisms by which we report the news and turned it on it's head. This shift in the paradigm has not just altered the Internet world but has reached out into society and changed the way we consume our news. A superb example of imagination and technical excellence coming together.