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Ireland.com.

Developed – controversially – in London for €2.5 million.

Worth every cent?

Annie West writes:

We pretended to be a couple of potential visitors to Ireland and wanted to see what’s on. We were simply having a look to see what two and a half million buys you in the way of excellent British Web Design.
….We open the page and are blasted by a bewildering , shape shifting array of images, captions, tabs and buttons. There is an abundance of green. Which I suppose is fine but there are other colours in this country.
…And yet, somehow, it seems so silent. Not that I personally would enjoy the wailing of Uileann pipes any time I open a web page. But maybe a bit of witty banter that we’re famous for might…never mind.

Later

… My friend walks outside and plunges his head into a bucket of freezing water while I check the maximum, reasonable, allowable dosage of aspirin.

 

Ireland.com (Annie West)

Previously: Gather This

Oh.

Tourism Ireland reportedly paid the Irish Times nearly €500,000 for the domain name Ireland.com.

Now it’s here. And it’s as green, cloying and The Gathering-laden as you had possibly feared.

But it’ does have a bonus “Disney Ireland” link. With tricolour rollercoasters and shamrock Mickeys?

Nope, just sheep.

And if your’re an Irish person who wants to holiday here you have to go to discoverireland.com. Because Ireland.com is only responsible for marketing the island of Ireland OVERSEAS as a holiday destination.

Bloody foreigners.

Ireland.com


Previously: The Complaint That Looks Like Ireland.com

Daniel Sullivan writes:
So the IT is selling off it’s celtic tiger stock and ireland.com email is going. We’ve not even been given a month’s notice to redirect all the various registrations we might have had to a new email address.
I’ve used the service almost from the off, even was a paying customer back in the day, and now I’ve got less than month to update various registrations for all sorts of services whether for Linkedin, Blacknight, Xbox, Popbitch etc. with a new address. A bloody thoughtless mess. Surely a re-direct for a couple of months isn’t too much to ask for.