Useful Irish websites for non-financial issues

Brendan Burgess

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I wil try to compile a list of useful Irish websites. When we have a good list of sites, I will figure out the best way to layout the information. Please add sites as you come across them and I will incorporate them if they meet most of the following guidelines:

Irish
Useful reference type information
Lots of useful information - not new sites or sites with little content
Non-financial (for this thread)
Kept up to date
Free access
Free registration
Easy to use
Minimal or no advertising
Discussion board for asking questions

Please do not suggest:
Commercial sites of which there are many in the same industry e.g. jobs, houses or cars


Very specialist sites e.g. military history
 
Re: Useful Irish websites

links to financial sites


entertainment.ie for gigs

boards.ie discussions on almost everything

adverts.ie boards.ie offshoot for buying and selling stuff or giving away unwanted stuff

www.jumbletown.ie for items to be given or got for free.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LeinsterFreecycle/ For giving away stuff for free

nightcourses.ie

cartell.ie gives the history of a car you might be buying

Government sites:





www.motortax.ie
MOtor tax portal for paying your motor tax online.

rollercoaster.ie pregnancy and parenting
www.magicmum.com - parenting and childcare site



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www.Breakingnews.ie

www.goldenpages.ie


www.irishhealth.com

http://maps.google.co.uk
allows you see detailed street maps of Ireland, you can save your location to Dublin to save you navigating to it each time.



[broken link removed] restaurant guide and recommendations

[broken link removed] restaurant reviews

Travel within Ireland

www.platform11.org Ireland’s National Rail Users Organisation

http://www.irishrail.ie
http://www.buseireann.ie

Journey Planner Dublin

http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/routes/

not an irish website but useful for planning trips, even in Ireland!











 
Re: Useful Irish websites

"Useful Irish websites" that are "not too specialist" is very vague. You might be better off imposing some form of categorisation on the list.
 
Hi ClubMan

At this stage, it is going to be vague. We will see what sites are suggested and then work out how to categorize them.

We might have two separate threads - Widespread interest and Specialised interest.

Brendan
 
Brendan said:
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Migration.ie provide advice on migration, working holiday and tourist visas for Australia and New Zealand, Vietnam, China, Thailand, Russia, UK, Ireland.

This is a commercial site.

www.immigrant.ie is a free discussion site
 
irishheart.ie seems very specific - how about irishhealth.com as an alternative in this market.
 
Hi Marion

How do choose which of the many food review sites to include?

CC - thanks for pointing that out. I have deleted both sites. immigrant.ie is too small a site. Very little discussion on it.
 
www.met.ie Met Eireann. Handy 3-day forecast.
www.fas.ie Free for job seekers and employers to post jobs and good info for reasonable training courses nationwide. Don't know if it fully qualifies.
 
sorry for formatting in above post, Im having trouble with the AAM editor recently with directional arrows, icons and pre-post formatting not working. e.g. If I click on edit in the above post, I get html tags in the post. hmmm.
 
Not sure whether it meets all criteria (you can pay a subscription fee and there is a lot of advertising, but it's a widely used resource and chat forum among us Bridezillas):

www.weddingsonline.ie