The National Gallery of Ireland houses the
national collection of Irish art and European master paintings.
Admission to the Gallery is free.
Opening Hours: Monday to Saturday 9.30am-5.30pm; Thursday
9.30am-8.30pm; Sunday 12pm-5.30pm
Closed: Good Friday, 24-26 December; Entry to exhibition
galleries and shop ceases 15 minutes before Gallery closing time.
Access: Visitors entrance at Merrion Square West and Clare Street. Two
disabled parking bays are located outside Merrion Square gates.
Galleries are accessible by lift to all levels. Wheelchairs available on
request. The Lecture Theatre is equipped with a loop system. Floor
Plans, Access Guides and Tactile Picture Sets are available from the
Information Desk.
Public Tours: free - Saturdays 3pm; Sundays 2pm, 3pm, 4pm
Public Lectures: free - Sundays 3pm, Tuesdays 10.30am.
Education Services: Guided tours, including those for visually and
hearing impaired visitors, may be booked by writing three weeks in
advance of arranged date. There is a regular programme of art courses,
workshops and outreach activities for adults, teenagers, children and
families. Telephone +353 (0)1 663 3505.
Gormley's Art Gallery, Omagh, Co. Tyrone,
Northern Ireland was established in 1989 and has developed over the
years, specialising in Irish Art. Regular exhibitions are held
displaying the works of both local and well known established artists.
The gallery provides it's clients with an ideal environment in which to
view and appreciate the works of art on display. They appeal to
many collectors by exhibiting the works of both traditional and modern
artists, throughout the year. In order to facilitate the Gallery's
ever increasing number of clients, a second Gallery has been established
in Belfast at 670 Ravenhill Road (The Yellow Gatelodge).
'Living With Art' Gormleys Fine Art has published a 96 page book which contains
detailed information on over 60 artists along with examples of their
work. Click
here to get a free copy
The website for the National Gallery of Art in
Washington DC is as close to the real thing as you are going to get
without forking out for a plane ticket and the admission fee. It is
truly an amazing site which allows you to view the works in the gallery,
read about the artist and garner everything you could possibly need to
know about art from the middle ages to present. You can search by
artist, tour collections or choose a gallery guide in up to five
languages. The site houses data on more than 100,000 objects and offers
a special weekly virtual tour. It is well organised and easy to navigate
if you are planning to visit the gallery , you can organise every
detail in advance, right down to what you want for lunch at the gallery
restaurant.
The lemonstreet gallery, one of the most recent
additions to the community of Irish art, offers an online experience
that redefines the concept of galleries and purchasing art. The concise
informative site allows viewers to ponder over the works at their own
pace, as well as research artists and different printmaking techniques.
One of the strengths of the site is that it takes the intimidation
factor out of buying art. You can visit the gallery building and then
experiment with your prints of interest on-line. The site offers an
excellent service which allows you to see what your print would look
like using different mount boards, colour and frames. The system also
calculates the total price of your choices as you go along, so there are
no embarrassing surprises when it comes time to pay.
This site explores the whole gamut of Irish art,
from jewellery and furniture design to music, books and paintings. The
New York venture (it was founded by a group of ex-pats) is more
commercial than information-based, but it does try to foster dialogue
between artists and the public by hosting the odd chat session with
Irish art-folk.
Are posters art? For some of us they do the
job and this website offers almost anything you might be looking for
from cheesy unicorn posters, to great works of art, advertising and
vintage pieces. You can browse the site by subject or by style, but if
you know exactly what you are looking for, the search engine is
extremely efficient. There are literally thousands of posters on offer,
many that you would not find in the average poster shop. You can
buy prints, posters, and photography securely online.
Shipping rates to Europe vary from $24 to $35 and the company has a one
shipping rate policy so regardless if you order one poster or 20, you
pay the same fee.
See for Yourself
The URL might seem a little complicated, but the
WebMuseum which is found at the end, is a rich resource as it provides
links to museums from all over the world. The WebMuseum was the
brainchild of Nicholas Pioch, a Parisian with an overall interest in art
and the belief that it should be made accessible.
The site is an enigma there is no support, no
funding, no manpower, instead the WebMuseum is the collaborative work of
its visitors who contribute to expand and improve the resources
available.
There are a couple of links that do not seem to
connect, but there is still a ton of information which would be a great
resource for people looking to explore the lesser known museums around
the globe. www.tate.org.uk
The site is the definitive guide to all of the
Tate Galleries, including the new Tate Modern. The Tate, which houses
the national collection of British art and international collection of
modern art, is explored with more than 25,000 pages of information and
8,000 images. The site is updated regularly and 500 new images are added
weekly. By the end of 2001, the entire 50,000 piece Tate Collection will
be available for viewing online. The site allows you to search by artist
or conduct more research-oriented searches. It also invites you to
browse the general and Oppe Collections in four languages. It is
extremely easy to navigate, vibrant and informative.
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One of the biggest health sites on the web, this
has quite a bit on almost any health query you can think of.
If there's something else, ask `Dr Dean'. The
People's Pharmacy and a fitness forum add a common touch. Like most of the
super biggies, there's a library and a news site.
It also has an excellent section on headaches,
migraines and their causes.
For fans of alternative medicine, this website is
about the most respectable on the net.
Big into vitamins, herbs and other natural
remedies. Whether it's how aspirin can fight heart disease or the natural
alternatives to Ritalin, Drwhitaker.com infuses a healthy scepticism about
doctors and conventional drugs.
"The one the doctors use", allegedly. Live chat,
special features and the day's news make this a lively site. Has a
rotating panel of doctors to whom you can e-mail a query.
Celebrity doctor Hilary Jones is the guru.
Do you suffer from schizophrenia, a substance
abuse disorder or other mental condition? You might, you know.
Mentalhealth.com is basically a free
encyclopaedia to mental health online. Special features
include the most common disorders, the most common drugs and a range of
diagnosis for mental problems. Why free? Well, it's Canadian.
Voluminous pages of text on all categories of mental health, though less
user friendly than the commercial sites. Aimed at patients, doctors,
families of patients and students.
Every word of every Act of the Oireachtas from 1922
to 1997 is available on the Attorney general's site. The enormous size of
the site means it's not fast or easy to use, but it's certainly
comprehensive. A new update of the site is due to be completed by late
summer.
The Courts Service website was launched in November
and is an ambitious effort to make the courts system accessible to the
public. The site has recorded more than a million hits since it was set up.
It features almost 4,000 pages and is slick and fast-loading.
Content includes details of the court system (great
for cogging a school civics project!), information about the location and
contact details of court offices around the country, court rules and legal
links. The most popular feature is the online legal diary, which is updated
daily with information about forthcoming court cases (mostly in Dublin). The
site even features the names of all the country's judges, and there's a
handy search facility too.
One drawback is that business cannot currently be
transacted through the site, but there are plans to change that once the
website staff has been increased from its current staffing level of two.
The Irish Law site is the grandaddy of all Irish
legal websites. It was set up by Dr Darius Whelan, a law lecturer at the
Institute of Technology, Tallaght, in 1994 long before the web became
popular. He still maintains the site by himself.
The site is text-based and features only two
graphics, which makes it fast-loading but gives it an old-fashioned
appearance. Links are neatly boxed under nine sub-headings: the
Constitution, the legal system and courts, government information (north and
south), legal academics and practitioners, the peace process, European law,
miscellaneous legal links, law on the web and general Irish information.
The site also contains the Irish law list, a
moderated discussion group of 366 legal academics and professionals, and
provides an archive of all messages going back to September 1994. Anyone can
join the list and search previous discussions and messages.
The website of the Law Society of Ireland is a
valuable legal resource for members of the public, as well as the country's
5,300 practising solicitors. The site is well laid out and updated three or
more times a week though it can be a little slow to download. Webmaster
Claire O'Sullivan says the site has been getting thousands of hits a month
since it was set up in February 1999. Most popular pages are the job
vacancies, with many Irish lawyers abroad inquiring about returning home to
practise.
The site contains a comprehensive amount of legal
information, including details of Society publications and seminars,
information about qualifying as a solicitor in Ireland, articles from the
award-winning Law Society Gazette and links to other useful legal sites.
There's a separate password-protected area for solicitors.
The Law Society site stands in bright contrast to
the misspelt, badly-punctuated, very basic Law Library site for barristers
at http://indigo.ie/~gregk.
The Law Library Homepage
has moved to the following location:
Across the water, one of the most useful legal sites
is Delia Venables' portal site for British and Irish legal information.
It's an attractive framed site which offers links to just about every
possible site of legal interest, plus free legal information for
individuals, companies and lawyers.
This sub section of the RTE website is well worth a
visit for all those Den 2 fans who are glued to their television sets every
day of the week. A fun and funky site with bouncing television sets it is
suitable for children of all ages. Younger children can download pictures of
Soky (sic) and Dustin which they can colour in. Older children can meet
their favourite presenters in the chatroom. One problem is the sheer volume
of information on some pages.
The Department of Education's revamped website is a
lot more than yet another boring government department site it has a fun
look with lots of content for parents of school-going children. For those of
us who know nothing about the new curriculum apart from complaining about
the extra days off which teachers have been getting for retraining it is
explained in full. Children from infants up to senior cycle are catered for
in one of four sections, while teachers have their own section. It also
allows for CAO applications and alterations on line.
The BBC's kids section, which is called CBBC, has a
slightly older feel to its pages than the Den 2 pages. Children can track
their favourite programmes, including Blue Peter and Newsround, or play on
the games site. There are details on the CBBC stars and a `Have your Say'
section where kids can chat about things which are important to them.
In the `Get Involved' section children can air their views on any CBBC
programme. The CBBC site also has a great web guide which points kids in the
direction of other good websites.
Ever wondered where to find the answer to all those
difficult questions which are usually posed from the back of the car?
Instead of saying "ask your father/mother", get the little darlings to check
out this site. A simple query on dinosaurs produced 73 items ranging from
`Dinosaur Life: Were they social animals?' to `Dinosaur skin: think bumpy
scales'. A perfect online
encyclopaedia for kids, this site is easy to use and is brightly
coloured while not being too childish for older users. It is also a good way
for adults, who don't know the answers to all those questions, to keep one
step ahead of their kids.
This is a brilliant website for anyone interested in
the solar system and space. This bright and informative site has lots of
information, probably too much, when it comes to trying to access certain
sections. There doesn't seem to be any commercial advertisements on
the site which is updated only on a weekly basis.
Along with sections on `Space and Beyond' and
`Rockets and Airplanes', children can join the NASA Kids Club and get a
birthday greeting sent to them all perfect for any budding astronaut.
Fast information on companies all over the world in
the form of "company capsules". These carry a potted history, share price,
contact details and latest sales and earnings figures for just about every
largish listed company you can think of. You have to be a member to get some
of the more detailed information, but the capsules are a good start. Hoovers
also has research on industry trends and features business news from its own
research and other sources. On Fridays, it has a "Friday failure" slot,
which looks at a big corporate disaster and analyses what went wrong. Quick
and easy to use.
A handy reminder of various euro facts and figures,
plus a euro converter, a series of questions and answers on the currency.
This is the European Commission's euro site; others to look out for include
www.ecb.int the European
Central Bank's site which features speeches by top euro officials as well as
updates on various subjects related to the euro's arrival. Worthy, if
less than riveting, and especially useful for anyone who still has trouble
naming the 11 EMU states. Does it not puzzle you why some EU member states
still insist on keeping two sets of accounting procedures? Wonder who!
Goo Boo I suppose!
Where do you even start when it comes to listing all
the information available on the Bloomberg website? The site includes
information on everything from the latest initial public offerings on Wall
Street and elsewhere to the best restaurant to eat at and the Beaujolais you
must drink while you are there. The site is designed to provide stock market
information over the internet. Most of the information including news
and stock prices is delayed by around 20 minutes which isn't bad for a free
service.
Davy Stockbrokers' website is one of the best Irish
financial websites. It offers Irish share prices with a 15-minute delay,
whereas the Irish Stock Exchange website only updates its prices at certain
times during the day.
The home page also outlines the major Irish
financial events taking place that day and allows users to access Davy's
morning meeting note which gives a snapshot on the company results which
were released that morning.
Company-specific research as well as economic
research is available only to clients of the firm and a user name and
password is required to access these reports.
This website contains a mix of interviews, reviews,
features, gossip and comment pieces on all aspects of music, but
particularly on rock. It is not unlike Hot Press. Indeed many of
its writers also contribute to the bible of the Irish music industry.
The site works extremely well. Photographs and
digestible columns of text make this an interesting site to look at as well
as to read. Unlike other Irish music websites that concentrate on
listings, the site is fluid with a mix of multimedia imagery that keeps the
reader clicking for more. Each article has at least three links that
can bring readers elsewhere if they want more details on the subject matter.
The site's search and quickfinder mechanisms help
the reader locate the information they want. And surfers can also sign
up to an e-newsletter with weekly news from the website. Another great
feature on the site is its related links.
Writers include the ubiquitous music journalists Jim
Carroll (Muse's editor-in-chief), Donal Dineen, Donal Scannell and John
Kelly. Some of the personality-driven writing on the site might not be
to the everyone's liking. Designed and maintained by Barry O'Neill's
Rondomondo, the site is sponsored by Eircell and Tower Records Europe.
There is so much on this website that it is hard to
cover all its content in just one sitting. There's news, reviews and
gig previews as well as an online shop where visitors can buy the videos,
albums and singles reviewed on the site. Visitors can also buy tickets
for upcoming gigs that are previewed on the site. Unfortunately the concerts
are all in Britain as this is a British site.
Nme.com's news is updated regularly and, just in
case visitors don't get time to visit the site, they can subscribe to a
daily news update e-mail. You can also sift through the site's content with
a helpful search mechanism.
Although this site is a compendium of all types of
entertainment available in Ireland in any given week, its music listings are
comprehensive. Unfortunately that's about as far as it goes. The
site doesn't contain any interesting features to accompany the listings of
traditional, jazz, blues, classical and opera concerts around the country.
This site has a clever search mechanism whereby
music lovers can check out what's going on in their particular county on a
particular day. However, anyone interested in knowing more about Irish
music will have to look elsewhere for more detailed information.
That said it still is a great site. Great
place to check your Irish Lotto Numbers, since the Lotto started here,
almost - Where is the year 2002 results?
Like entertainmentireland.ie, Irish Film and
Television Network's wow (what's on where) is mainly listings based, but
with added width including features, news and reviews. There is a
considerable archive of past interviews, features and reviews. Wow
also has information on films, theatre and general entertainment news.
The quality of writing on this site is very high and the layout and design
is extremely user friendly. Is it beginning to go downhill though - I ask?
Quality On-Line is a collection of professional software applications for
improving the control of quality manuals, documentation, complaint
management, feedback registration, improvement management and knowledge
management.
Impressive up-to-date and wide ranging services, features and facilities for
most business users.
The only thing this website is missing is a section
covering League of Ireland football. As well as carrying every
imaginable statistic for every team in the english Premiership, Division
one, two and three, the Scottish league, Champions league and UEFA Cup, it
also has all the news and statistics for the Italian, German, Spanish,
French, Dutch and Las Americas leagues. We're talking serious
detail here; As if daily news updates, buckets of stats and links to
official club websites weren't enough, planetfootball tops it all off with
every footie fan's favourite cartoon strip Roy of the Rovers.
Covering football, hurling, camogie and handball,
the GAA site is a well presented site with daily updates and plenty of
compelling content. It includes links to club sites and a virtual GAA
section which gives an excellent introduction to the association's museum.
If you're one of the many fans who never gets to visit Croke Park itself, do
not despair; you can get a 360 degree view of the grounds with a simple
download available through the site.
This website takes a comprehensive look at rugby
world wide. The editorial content is of exceptionally high quality with
columns written by current and former rugby heroes both north and south of
the equator such as David Kirk, Daniel Herbert, Matt Dawson and Michael
Lynagh.
The site has a northern hemisphere slant, but
because of the flow of information from its sister site based in the
Antipodes,
www.rugby365.com, it has a very balanced outlook on the world game.
The site has information, updated daily, on all rugby tournaments ranging
from our own All Ireland League semi-finals to the Super 12 competition down
under.
There is a great archive section and search engine
of individual international players and of international matches played from
1871 to the present day.
This website contains a wealth of information
including previews of the week's horse racing in Ireland and Britain.
The site tips potential winners and possible jackpots and enables punters to
take a virtual look at race courses in England and Ireland.
The two internet tipster's `Man in the Know' and
`The Cheltenham Mole' each pick out likely winners; however, their record,
similar to many tipsters', is patchy. The site is updated on a daily
basis.
Albionracing is easy to navigate but a bit boring,
the content and the technology could be upgraded.
It is hard to find a comprehensive golf site online
because of the huge number of sites advertising courses worldwide. The
best source of golf news on the web is a site affiliated to the American
television station NBC. It gives browsers a detailed picture of events
as they are unfolding on the courses around the world.
Gone are the days when political journalists would
have to troop down to the helpful people in the parliamentary debates office
in Leinster House to get the official transcripts of proceedings in the Dáil
and Seanad. Gone also are the heaps of information packs which mount
up on reporters' desks. Thanks to the excellent website of the Irish
government, all this information can now be downloaded with a few mouse
clicks.
The website
www.irlgov.ie contains
a massive breadth of information ranging from the President of Ireland to
the houses of the Oireachtas, the Taoiseach's office, all government
departments, the Gardaí and the defence forces. The names, addresses
and other contact details of all 166 Dáil deputies and 60 senators are
available as is useful information regarding the membership of Oireachtas
all-party committees and their work.
While this site is a proverbial must for people
interested in politics, it also has much to offer the layperson.
The other sites which political junkies might like
to visit are set up by all the main political parties. Similar
information is available through all these sites.
The Fianna Fail site at
www.fiannafail.ie
contains more interesting links and layers than the other parties' sites.
Where is their Fianna Fail dot Com gone to? There are links to the Irish
government site and to the websites of The Irish Times, the Irish
Independent, the Irish Examiner and The Sunday Business Post.
The Fine Gael site at
www.finegael.com is
updated on a daily basis. It is very well presented and represents a
proper and serious
in-depth approach to politics in Ireland. The Party leader Mr.
Enda Kenny TD of Castlebar, Co. Mayo was elected leader of Fine Gael on 5th
June 2002. He is one of the few hard working behind the scenes
politicians in Ireland and will likely surprise the pundits assessment
regarding Fine Gael, at the next general election. He is outwardly of
quiet disposition but inwardly a trojan who gets things done.
It seems that Labour is the most prolific party when
it comes to press statements, all of which are posted on its site at
www.labour.ie.
Did you know that the Progressive Democrats liked to
describe themselves as "Ireland's Liberal Party"? A visit to their
site at
http://www.progressivedemocrats.ie/Home.html will explain why.
Now that they are in Government and the money they have moved from
www.iol.ie/pd/.
The Green Party's site at
www.greenparty.ie
is worth a visit just to see how it has emerged as a political force in
Ireland. Have they become less vociferous?
Sinn Féin's statements, which get wider coverage due
to the keen interest in the Peace Process, are accessible on its site at
www.sinnfein.ie along
with the latest information on attempts to re-establish the political
institutions in the North. The Sinn Féin President is Mr. Gerry Adams MP. He
will probably add Mr. Gerry Adams TD to that after the next election.
This website is definitely not for the fainthearted
aimed as it is at the activity and adventure travel market. According to its
own publicity material, the site has information on over 10,000 activity
holidays covering
numerous adventure pursuits across 200 countries around the world.
So, for those intrepid adventurers who want to go overlanding in Africa,
heli-skiing in the Swiss Alps or even the more sedate activity of walking in
the hills of Tuscany, this is a good starting point.
The site is easy to use with an A to Z listing by
country and by activity. Its limitation is that it is still mainly a
resource for finding brochures rather than for providing a full online
booking service for holidays.
Ryanair came under a barrage of criticism for going
for the cheap option by getting "a Leaving Cert student and one of his pals"
to design and build its website. But despite the criticism, the pair
have done a relatively GREAT job. The site looks as if it cost more
than $8,000 though it is not the best looking in the world, but that is not
necessary as long as it functions! The flight booking engine works
well with online credit card authorisation taking around 45 seconds to one
minute. The airline hopes to meet a deadline for booking flights through
mobile phones. It cannot be held back and at a time when the airline
industry is in some chaos it continues to charge ahead. Other airlines
are taking note though!
The problem with travel guidebooks is that they are
usually out of date as soon as they are printed. Lonely Planet has
come up with a facility on its website that will extend the life of its
print publications with regular updates. The upgrades provide a wealth
of new information based on reports from Lonely Planets' own writers as well
as contributions from travellers on the road.
The news section, one of the best sources of news on
travel in Asia and elsewhere, has a collection of current and recent news
stories by date and by country. Altogether a worthwhile visit for anyone
thinking of travelling to one of those out of the way places.
Ebookers, which has a Ireland version of its
international travel portal, demonstrates just how the internet is shaking
up the travel industry. With its headquarters in London, the company
operates websites in most European countries offering airline booking
facilities that cut out the need for travel agents. The company claims
to have negotiated discount fares with over a hundred airlines and thousands
of hotels worldwide, all of which are on offer through the site.
If you need to know just how much you are spending
while on holidays, oanda.com can help. One of the most popular
currency
conversion sites on the web, the site offers two-way conversions for 164
currencies, with current and historical conversions from January 1, 1990, as
well as currency forecasts. It also offers a "cheat sheet" for
travellers, which automatically includes typical credit card (two per cent)
and cash (four per cent) assessments.
One of the most popular technology news sites,
vnunet is updated daily with both industry and product news. The site offers
excellent free downloads that are changed regularly to keep them relevant.
The site has reviews of hardware and software as well as reviews of books on
technology. If you don't fancy reading about the latest tech news, the
site has an audio facility that allows you to listen to interviews, keynote
speeches and the like. The site is WAP-enabled and also provides an
e-mail newsletter. One area in which the site is lacking is in its
shopping facility called Micromart. This is designed to facilitate
both buying and selling but currently has little stock. Overall a
well-presented, fast-loading site bursting with quality content.
In a similar vein to the vnunet site, the zdnet site
also has lots of news, reviews and free downloads. Where it pips
vnunet is in its Help and How To section which can prove useful to both new
and experienced computer users. The zdnet site is owned by Ziff Davis
Media Publications and taps into the publisher's international network to
give localised zdnet sites for many countries, but unfortunately not for
Ireland. Another useful feature on the site, with so many people in
the IT sector holding stocks, is its Inter@ctive Investor which allows you
to get up-to-date stock quotes.
A welcome addition to the world of Ireland-focused
IT sites, electric news is updated daily with the latest news releases of
the day. The site is still at an early stage of development but it
pips more established Irish IT sites such as
www.techcentral.ie
with its daily content updates. The site has a useful Who's Who
section and offers an e-mail newsletter. The site is being built on
all the time and recently added a Friday Focus section which offers more
in-depth coverage of topical IT issues.
Mentioned before, techcentral fails on daily updates
but gains on in-depth articles over the competition in the Irish market.
Most of the editorial content is drawn from IT industry magazine
Computerscope, while the site draws on jobfinder.ie for its jobs section and
Tipworld for its IT and computer tips.
Not exactly a technology site but one that may be
needed if you are trying to understand a tech site. It claims to be
the web's largest database of its kind with over 143,000 acronyms,
abbreviations, initialisms and definitions.
So all you KBIs with PCs can now hit the WWW to find
out the true meaning of all the TLAs used to promote the latest IPOs in the
world of IT.
The ONLY Irish website
dedicated to advertising and 'selling' your house for
FREE. Bright and easy to navigate.
You are logged on as a guest user giving you
full access to browse all properties on the database. TO ADVERTISE YOUR OWN PROPERTY FOR FREE
with up to THREE IMAGES only takes two steps,
login or if you don't
have an account, you can create one
here. When you
login, you will see a link titled'Advertise Your
Property' on the main navigation bar. Click on this link to start
advertising. It couldn't be easier!!
and you could save THOUSANDS. An
expanding and continually updated portal now catering for Property for Rent,
Motors for Sale, general items for Sale, Discussion Forums and good advice
on many relative topics.
While the website of the Sherry FitzGerald Group is
not especially attractive, it does provide comprehensive information for
anyone thinking of buying or selling. Probably the best feature, and one
which marks it out from other Irish property sites, is the "propertemail"
service for house hunters.
Visitors submit details of the property they wish to
buy and for the next four weeks receive an e-mail every time a property
matching their search criteria comes onto the books. At the end of the
four-week period participants are asked if they wish to stay on the database
and sign up for another month.
The website of the Douglas Newman Good agency is
well designed and easy to use. Visitors can search the firm's 13 offices
throughout Dublin, Wicklow and Kildare for properties to buy, and can also
get information on rentals and mortgages. Fortunately the firm has resisted
the temptation to put photographs of a dozen or so properties on the same
page, which might slow things up considerably, so this site is particularly
quick.
This is the recently redesigned website of Hooke and
MacDonald, the Dublin-based estate agency which specialises in the sale of
new homes. Another major division of the company is lettings and if
you are looking for an apartment or house to rent in the capital this is a
good place to start.
The "let on the net" facility allows you to submit
details of the type of property you want, the price you are willing to pay
and the area you are interested in to a virtual letting agent. Details
are then provided of suitable properties on the books at Hooke and MacDonald
with details of rent and other details such as whether parking is provided.
The website of the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers
Institute allows you to search the books of member firms to find the
property you are after. This site allows you to have access to a
number of different agents all at once. But because so many logos
appear on each page it can be extremely slow and more than a little
frustrating to use perhaps a redesign is in order.
Irish Property News says it covers property news and
information but it has very few actual properties for sale listed on its
pages. The site includes a property search engine which is hardly warranted
considering the dearth of postings. On Wednesday, for example there were
just two properties in Co Louth on the site. Where this site is most
valuable is in the links is has to other estate agents' websites
countrywide.
This is the site that brought you first news of the
Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky saga and which can always be relied upon for a
whiff of scandal. Set up by notorious investigative reporter Matt
Drudge, this is a no-frills site but one which will usually give you an
excellent lunchtime anecdote. So if you like improbable headlines like
"Spies posing as journalists" or "Clinton says White House life good for
marriage", this is one for you.
Excellent visuals bring you to exotic world
locations with the top-notch photographs which the printed magazine is
justifiably famous for. The on-line version allows you to take virtual
tours such as its "River Wild" tour which takes you whitewater rafting, a
tour of the pyramids with an Egyptologist, or the New York underground
system of sewers and subways. The "wildcam" service gives a live view
of otters in the wild. Also has links to maps and news on nature.
A "click-to-donate" site which allows you to give
two cupfuls of staple food to a starving person every time you visit
(limited to once a day). The donations of rice or maize are
distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme. It may sound
gimmicky and the flashing world map on the home page where countries
periodically darken to reflect the death of an individual from starvation
every 3.6 seconds is rather grim but 55 million visitors have donated
6,800 tons of free food by visiting the site since it launched last year.
Sponsors whose names appear on the site pay for the daily donations.
When you think of the time you waste aimlessly clicking on the web, you may
as well be doing some good.
As the site for well-known shops, including Dorothy
Perkins, Top Shop, Top Man, Evans and Burtonmenswear to name a few,
zoom.co.uk is the high street shopping experience without the sore feet. Now
in the technology sector with Internet offerings.
This is an excellent site for anyone with an
interest in interiors, gardening and property in general. As well as
providing links to the sites of BBC programmes such as Changing Rooms, there
are interest features on issues such as the legal implications of
co-habiting and how to choose an antique teddy bear.
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