www.oideas-gael.com

Oideas Gael was founded in 1984 "to promote the learning and use of Irish and to foster Irish culture". This nicely presented bilingual site provides details of the organisation's Irish language courses for adults, are aimed at all learning levels. An online form allows you to reserve places on these courses or on a "cultural activity holiday", which include dancing, painting, pottery, archaeology and bodhran and flute playing. The site also includes a message board and relevant links.

www.eircomlearning.ie

Eircom's learning site aims to provide information for teachers, students and parents on all aspects of education in Ireland. Clearly a huge amount of work went into the site. News is an area on which many sites fall down, but this site has a daily-updated and comprehensive section of education news stories from Ireland and around the world. There are well-researched sections for schools, students, parents and teachers, within each of which are impressive "resources" pages with hundreds of relevant sites described and linked to.

www.eoincostello.com

Eoin Costello closed his real-world jeweller's shop in Dublin last year and reinvented himself as "the new face of Ireland on the Web", with a guide to the best deals on products and services in Ireland. He has also organised "Ireland's first school and university internet awards" and managed to get public-enterprise minister Mary O'Rourke to present the prizes last week. The winning sites in primary, second- and third-level categories are all linked from his site, and they are worth visiting.

www.cs.tcd.ie/courses/mscmm

If you've decided you'd prefer to spend your life creating websites and other multimedia products rather than browsing them, you might consider the MSc in multimedia systems at Trinity College Dublin's computer science department. These pages stand apart from the rest of TCD's site, with their trendy, minimalist design and impressive use of the technology taught on this one-year postgraduate course, but they still have all the info you need and a showcase of work by the class of '99.

www.edunet.ie

This is the Irish wing of EduNet, an international organisation that links schools to the Internet for free. The design of the site is amateurish and it's hard to know how out-of-date the information is, but if you happen to be interested in links to schools all over the world, they're here, as well as plenty of links to online educational resources (though this latter area of the site does not appear to be specifically Irish). There are links to Irish schools, but many are broken.