The most popular Irish website?

softmee

Hi, not sure where to ask, move if its wrong place.

Is there something like the big main Irish web portal? I mean a website with all the big national news plus some show biz.info, weather etc?

I've never come across. (maybe only yahoo.ie, but its not only for ireland)
For Poland there is lat least five websites like this:

http://www.onet.pl/
http://www.gazeta.pl/0,0.html
http://www.interia.pl/
http://www.wp.pl/

Could you please link what you have here. Thanks!

Biggins

www.entertainment.ie

Um
Www.boards.ie

Immaculate Pasta

It might be www.boards.ie

I wouldn't recommend it though, the members are all a bunch of nutters from what I've heard.

softmee

Deleted User wrote: »

Um
Www.boards.ie

It is a internet forum from what I've heard. :pac:

My name is URL

Biggins wrote: »

www.entertainment.ie

Is that seriously the most popular? Jesus!

Quazzie

www.faceboards.ie is by far the biggest and best sit evah!!!!!!

softmee

softmee wrote: »

It is a internet forum from what I've heard. :pac:

I get all my news from after hours
Showbiz crap can be found in celebs, gigs and events and other places
And there's even a weather forum!

It's all right here dude!

softmee

Deleted User wrote: »

I get all my news from after hours
Showbiz crap can be found in celebs, gigs and events and other places
And there's even a weather forum!

It's all right here dude!

I am not interested in showbiz crap or any other crap :pac: I am just curious what you've got here and kind of websites I am used too from where I come from have like ALL together. There are also chat rooms and much more, but I couldn't find anything like it in irish version.

My name is URL

RTE, as much as I moan about them, have one of the best websites in the country imo.

My name is URL

My name is URL wrote: »

RTE, as much as I moan about them, have one of the best websites in the country imo.

I would have to agree!

ZombieBride

There are very few .ie's that I can think of at all, I'd be interested in the answer to this one. What are the Irish into.

voz es

joe.ie
boards.ie
entertainment.ie
rte.ie

number10a

I love Onet - it's a brilliant website!! I suppose the closest thing we have here is RTÉ's website.

softmee

Is there any good active chat rooms? (I don't mean dodgy and empty -because that's all I've found )

softmee

number10a wrote: »

I love Onet - it's a brilliant website!! I suppose the closest thing we have here is RTÉ's website.

Why you love it? It's full of crap actually. :pac:

Wetai

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/IE
0. Google.ie
1 (11). RTE.ie
2 (13). AIB.ie
3 (15). Boards.ie

Quazzie

softmee wrote: »

Is there any good active chat rooms? (I don't mean dodgy and empty -because that's all I've found )

Private forums on Boards seem to be the next generation of chat rooms for Irish users from what I've seen.

softmee

LiamN wrote: »

http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/IE
0. Google.ie
1 (11). RTE.ie
2 (13). AIB.ie
3 (15). Boards.ie

-and donedeal.ie

Wetai

softmee wrote: »

-and donedeal.ie

I only included top 3 :P (4 if you could .ie but not irish; google.ie) - Especially since the block of Irish sites broke up there (ebay).

There are some which are .com but irish. I don't like that..

ZombieBride

Actually I check Daft.ie and Myhome.ie all the time to buy my lotto house.

Millicent

Breakingnews.ie

number10a

softmee wrote: »

Why you love it? It's full of crap actually. :pac:

Not being a native Polish-speaker, I didn't notice this. I'm just learning Polish and it has a big range of different articles so I find it good for reading to practice my Polski.

Morag

journal.ie

GetWithIt

softmee wrote: »

Is there something like the big main Irish web portal? I mean a website with all the big national news plus some show biz.info, weather etc?

1998 called. It wants it's idea of how people interact with the internet back.

K-9

Daft.ie used to be a lot higher a few years ago!

Laalaaa

ireland.com

jonnny68

http://www.cronyism.ie/
http://www.cutehoors.ie/
http://www.corruptbankers.ie/

:eek:;)

strobe

softmee wrote: »

Is there any good active chat rooms? (I don't mean dodgy and empty -because that's all I've found )

I've often wondered why boards.ie don't operate a chat room. There's clearly a demand (what with all the 'random chat' threads on here) and the things take very little effort to set up.

Snakeblood

jonnny68 wrote: »

http://www.cronyism.ie/
http://www.cutehoors.ie/
http://www.corruptbankers.ie/

:eek:;)

www.cutehoors.ie wasn't what I thought it was at all. :mad:

Quazzie

strobe wrote: »

I've often wondered why boards.ie don't operate a chat room. There's clearly a demand (what with all the 'random chat' threads on here) and the things take very little effort to set up.

Too hard to moderate is the simple answer. Plus it would take massive amounts of traffic away from the main site. The Random chat or Off Topic threads tend to be a good compromise.

softmee

Quazzie wrote: »

Too hard to moderate is the simple answer. Plus it would take massive amounts of traffic away from the main site. The Random chat or Off Topic threads tend to be a good compromise.

But its still strange there is not even one proper for Ireland.

angel01

To be honest, chat rooms are gone out with the Ark... not many use them anymore.

I haven't used one in about 7 years or more!

oppenheimer1

voz es wrote: »

joe.ie
boards.ie
entertainment.ie
rte.ie

joe.ie?! HAHA, seriously who the fuck looks at that?!

Tubsandtiles

Quazzie wrote: »

Too hard to moderate is the simple answer. Plus it would take massive amounts of traffic away from the main site. The Random chat or Off Topic threads tend to be a good compromise.

Do you think we will ever get a chatroom ?, I think it would be agreat idea

wonderfulname

softmee wrote: »

But its still strange there is not even one proper for Ireland.

Chat rooms haven't been in vogue in the English speaking world since the late 90s, it's not remotely odd that there isn't a major one for Ireland, on the other hand its mad weird that they're still in use in Poland...