Enterprise Ireland is the government agency responsible for the development and promotion of the indigenous business sector. Our mission is to accelerate the development of world-class Irish companies to achieve strong positions in global markets resulting in increased national and regional prosperity.

RTÉ.ie is Ireland's leading media website with over 67 million monthly page impressions and over 2.9 million unique users per month (ABCe Oct 2009). RTE.ie is the window to a number of stand-alone sites covering news, sport, entertainment, lifestyle (fashion, food, travel, etc.), television and radio. Irish and International audiences can keep up-to-date with all that is going on in Ireland at any given time in multi-media formats. Last year, RTÉ Player was launched on RTÉ.ie giving users the opportunity to catch-up on their favourite TV programmes from RTÉ Television after broadcast. People can also listen live to the four national radio stations and access past programmes through RTÉ.ie/radio. RTÉ News Now, RTÉ’s 24-hour live and looped News channel, is available on RTÉ.ie.

We’re old hands in new media with an unrivalled 9 years of digital expertise and 20 years of experience in traditional advertising.  We believe that strong creative ideas come from a deep understanding of both our clients' businesses and the consumer. When our ideas are produced, we track and measure every campaign to make sure our work is achieving its objectives.

From airlines to coffee, we represent a diverse range of clients including many leading Irish and international brands and services. What’s more, we’re always looking out for a new challenge.  We employ 28 highly talented people and have some of the best strategic, creative and technical minds in the Irish digital industry working for us.

Siliconrepublic.com is the definitive source of technology news in Ireland. Established following the dotcom collapse in 2002, the site has earnestly kept its readers up to speed with the changing technology world. Siliconrepublic.com and its sister publications Gadgetrepublic.com, Digital Ireland and eThursday provide a critical forum for decision makers who rely on its award-winning journalists’ individual mix of news, comment, analysis and opinion to stay informed of strategic tech industry developments and to ensure their company is making the right business and technology investments. Siliconrepublic.com produces publications with a combined readership in excess of 1.2 million per month.

The Irish Internet Association is the professional body for those conducting business via the internet from Ireland. It has been and remains one of the driving forces behind the adoption of the medium. Established in 1997, the IIA provides leadership to enterprises and society conducting business in Ireland. The IIA is a strong voice for its 550 plus company members. The aim of the Association is to Connect, Inform and Promote.

The IIA is a non-profit business association. Members of the association includes suppliers of Internet services and products as well as those using the medium for communication, marketing and commerce.

For 10 years Hostelworld.com, Ireland’s most successful internet company, has been transforming the hostelling industry, giving hostels and budget properties around the world the opportunity to market and promote their business to a global audience and sell their beds internationally. Hostelworld.com has grown to become the market leader in online reservations to the budget accommodation sector. The site is available in 23 languages and features over 24,000 properties in more than 180 countries, ranging from hostels to budget hotels, B&B’s, guesthouses and campsites.

Furthermore Hostelworld.com operates an affiliate program and has successful relationships with over 3,500 distribution partners, including Ryanair.com, Lonely Planet and many of the worlds leading brands. The site also offers excellence in both editorial and user generated content, featuring award winning video content and over 3 million genuine customer reviews. Hostelworld.com is owned by WRI who operate a number of established consumer brands including Hostels.com and bedandbreakfastworld.com.

Graphedia are a website & graphic design company based in the Wexford.  Established in 2000 by Niall Reck, Graphedia has over 500 clients nationwide from small start up companies to large multinationals. 

We pride ourselves in creating intriguing design whilst representing the views and aspirations of Irish businesses.  Creating bespoke designs in web design, logo design, brochure design, display stands. Also specialising in Search Engine Optimisation, Internet Marketing & Content Management Systems.

Ireland.com is the definitive guide to what’s happening in Ireland – a one-stop shop for travel and entertainment across the country, offering its users vibrant, up-to-the-minute content and ideas.

Ireland.com (part of The Irish Times Group) generates over 5 million page impressions per month and attracts a combined domestic and international audience of 500,000 unique users per month. 

Ireland.com users can find a restaurant in Dublin, book a hotel in Kerry, find a gig in Galway, book a flight to Sligo, find a festival in Clare, hire a car in Waterford, find cinema listings in Cork and lots, lots more!

MUZU.TV is a music video website and distribution platform that enables bands to broadcast their music videos on the web and get paid wherever it goes. On www.muzu.tv, music fans can create, watch and share music video playlists from the largest legal music video library on the web, and embed them on their social networking profiles and other websites. MUZU.TV provides free access to thousands of hours of diverse music video content including concerts, back-stage footage, documentaries, tutorials, music videos, interviews and classic music TV shows like The Tube. The company has deals in place with the four major record labels as well as hundreds of independent labels like Ministry of Sound, Xl Recordings, Matador, Domino and Rough Trade. MUZU.TV also syndicates music video content to a large number of major publishers such as NME, AOL, The Telegraph, The Irish Independent and others.

The key role of Fáilte Ireland is to support and help the industry to meet the challenges facing the entire global tourism market and to sustain, or increase, the level of activity in the sector.

We are primarily a catalyst of other people’s activity. We support the industry in it's efforts to be more competitive and more profitable. As the State’s tourism development authority, we are well placed to address some of the broader issues that need to be tackled if the industry is to grow and to develop.

Our emphasis is on strategic partnership, with all the interests in Irish tourism at national, local and regional levels working together towards a common goal.

Fáilte Ireland’s range of supports and services provides those involved, or considering becoming involved in Irish tourism, with a one-stop-shop to meet their business or professional needs. Working in partnership with the industry, Fáilte Ireland will meet the industry’s needs, leading and supporting Irish tourism in it's next phase of development.

Microsoft first opened its doors in Ireland in 1985 with a small manufacturing facility employing just over one hundred people. Since that time, Microsoft Ireland has grown to encompass four distinct operations at its campus in Sandyford in Dublin, employing over 1,200 full time employees and 700 full-time contract staff.

Microsoft's operations in Ireland include software development and testing, localisation, operations, finance, IT, HR and sales & marketing, both here in Ireland and across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Data Electronics is Ireland's leading provider of Data Centre, IT Outsourcing and Managed Services solutions.   Having developed our expertise by providing business critical services to companies worldwide, we add value by guaranteeing system availability and performance at all times.  We pride ourselves on our expert service delivery and our tailored, flexible IT solutions.  

The common thread among our product and service solutions is the unique ability to blend our expertise with our clients’ requirements, helping them make the journey towards improving the efficiency and performance of IT systems.

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The IEDR is an independent not-for-profit organisation that manages the .ie country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) namespace in the public interest of the Irish and global Internet communities.

The IEDR is a member of CENTR, the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries. In line with the Best Practice Principles of IANA, ICANN and CENTR, the IEDR is committed to the concept of administering .ie throughout the 32 counties of Ireland in an open and transparent manner.

Aware is a voluntary organisation founded 25 years ago. Our aim is to create a society where people with depression and their families are understood and supported, are free from stigma, and have access to a broad range of appropriate therapies to enable them to reach their full potential. Our services include:

• LoCall helpline: Staffed by volunteers, it provides a listening ear to those in immediate distress and is available 365 days per year.
• Support Groups: Over sixty support groups throughout Ireland, staffed by trained volunteers. These groups provide a safe place where attendees can be real and feel accepted. They establish an emotional connection through which pain can be expressed and transformed. They are encourage to turn towards, rather than away from their pain and it leave them with a much larger sense of what their lives are about and what the future might hold for them.
• Beat the Blues: Is an educational awareness programme aimed at senior level secondary school students. It encourages students to be more open about their emotional difficulties. It helps them to recognise depression either in themselves or their friends and how to support each other to seek help. With this programme we hope that future generations will view depression as an illness and not a character flaw.

Other services include Public Lectures, Information Leaflets and Research.