Irish Sites using Drupal

EIL Intercultural Learning is an Irish "not for profit" organisation which provides intercultural learning opportunities through study abroad, volunteer abroad, language training, travel awards, group educational programmes, and other cultural immersion activities for about 2,000 people each year.

EIL Intercultural Learning

The site is running Drupal 6, makes heavy use of CCK and Views, though image handling is still with Image module (I'd very much like to move over to a cck solution, but until I can find an equivalent of Image assist that makes it easy for non technical users to browse images on the site and insert them into blogs etc Im stuck with Image) e.g. the various rotating blocks of text/images and so forth are done using Views Rotator; e.g. 2 events are handled through the CCK add-ons Date and Calendar modules. For SEO metatags are handled by Integrated Metatags, sitemaps for Google etc with XML Sitemap and Google Analytics by Google Analytics appropriately enough.

Originally EIL had a couple of very old sites that looked tired and were a pain to maintain. We desperately needed a new site, but we didnt have much time as it was critical that the site was up and running for the start of the year and the peak period of interest in our programmes. We approached a number of Irish web design companies but got back an underwhelming response: expensive bids, didnt think it could be done in the time scale, wanted to lock us into a proprietary CMS, or even didnt read the design document we came up with), thus we decided to do it ourselves (though the theme was designed by Krug Creative and implemented by Jamesson Creative who we've worked with in the past for other stuff). The site took about a month to create and as you can see is still evolving (ahem Community). One of the most pleasant aspects of moving to Drupal is that it's enable my non technical colleagues to get involved and take ownership of their pages, adding and editing basic content, whereas before I was pretty much "gatekeeper" of anything web related, thus freeing me up to play about with more technical stuff and opening their eyes into how they could make use of the platform I created.

For the future I'd like to look at tying the website and the office database together, to reduce the amount of paperwork that goes back and forth between us and a someone who wants to take part in our of our activities.

Hmm I should probably write a case study, I've only been doing web design for 6 months or so and Drupal for 4 months, coding modules etc is a bit too far out on the horizon, but contributing back with a case study showing how the site works might be a nice thing to do.

Galway Gospel Choir is set up in Drupal as well as REMEDI, at NUI-Galway.

http://unreal.ie ;)

http://www.zikomo.org/

http://www.ecoliving.ie/

http://www.lowenergysolutions.ie/

and

http://www.iraace.ie/ (The Irish Research Association of Adult and Community Education)

http://www.stellapowerdesign.net - old D5 site of mine, ugh
http://www.annertech.com
http://www.stellapower.net - my personal blog
http://www.irlandiaceramics.com
http://www.monkstownphysiotherapy.ie
http://www.irishafricanpartnership.ie

Hello to all.

These campaign sites use Drupal:
http://www.getgrowing.ie - growing food locally campaign
http://www.bikescheme.ie - cycle to work scheme

This site is quite new, Green Party Get Ireland Growing campaign:
http://www.getgrowing.ie/

Here are some more for the list

http://www.forestryservices.ie/
http://www.thefuturesacademy.ie/

later
M

Now in its fourth year, Dublin: One City, One Book is a project designed to encourage everyone in the city of Dublin to read the same book during the month of April each year. The project promotes reading in a city which boasts one of the world’s greatest literary heritages including four Nobel Laureates.

Dublin: One City One Book is a Dublin City Council initiative led by the City Library Service.

The chosen book for the 2009 Dublin: One City, One Book is Dracula by Dublin author Bram Stoker.
SEE http://dublinonecityonebook.ie/

AND it is a Drupal site!!

Eddie (Dublin City Public Libraries)

This one has been live for a couple of months now and is holding up nicely:
http://www.concern.net

Tom - www.kirkdesigns.co.uk

This is my first drupal site, basic i know but we all have to start somewhere!

www.doorwise.ie

While having a look at Galway Races site, I noticed that it was developed in Drupal! so I remembered to add it here ;)

http://www.galwayraces.com/

i noticed http://www.sciencegallery.com/ is using drupal.

we should create a wiki page for this perhaps, maybe with some sort of categorization (e.g. sport, charity, museum, etc). What do you think?

Hi all

I can also safely confirm(!) the following sites to be using drupal!!

Institute of Public Health in Ireland - www.publichealth.ie
INIsPHO - www.inispho.org
both these sites running off same drupal install using domain module

Northern Ireland Cancer Network - www.cancerni.net

Tight Angle Photography - www.tightangle.com
ONUS Training - www.onustraining.co.uk

Hopefully see you all at DrupalCamp Belfast - belfast.drupalcampireland.org which I am helping get together

Adam

Just set this site live yesterday:
http://www.concernfast.org/

Much of the interesting functionality (user profiles, donations, sponsorships, legacy systems integration etc etc) is still not ready for release, but that'll come in late October!

Tom - www.kirkdesigns.co.uk

Another irish drupal site :
http://www.crapperdoodle.com

toilet funnies

Brian