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The first few months at university can be disorienting even for the most confident young students, but the hot new Campus.ie site can make the transition a good deal easier. Students can personalise this monumentally impressive site just by choosing their university and subject. The site then presents relevant university news and links you into all the local amenties you could want, from laundrette and hairdressers to local gyms, plus bus timetables for those weekend escapes home. Gig guides, youth news and reviews give the site the necessary injection of coolness. Don't miss it. It may be a dusty bunch of old books to most, but ancient Irish history makes the blood race for some academics, and this site aims to bring a part of ancient Ireland to life. The Brehon Law Project is a digital corpus of ancient Irish law, and although not yet complete, its creators want it to become a complete online guide to law in early Ireland. Already visitors can get some insights into the rival septs, warring kings, creepy Druids and general grimness of ancient Irish life. The creators of the site need an additional IEP 150,000 or so in order to digitise the rest of the text, which is drawn from the seminal "Corpus Iuris Hibernici," a six-volume definitive work on the topic. US surfers take note: contributions are tax-deductible. No doubt the Druids would approve. If you've seen Ireland on TV but never had the wherewithall to organise a trip for yourself to the homeland, the travel service site GotoIreland can help. Hand over USD 35 and you'll get a printed booklet to top attractions, decent restaurants and upcoming festivals. GotoIreland will also write up a personalised travel itinerary and deliver it by email within five days. The service is commendable and not a little enterprising, but the rest of the site is a little bare for potential tourists - a picture gallery or two, or some live news or info from Ireland might help set the scene and get surfers in the mood to spend. If you're a sleuth, or just want to feel like one, pay a couple of quid and try out this intriguing service from CFI Online. Once you have registered, you're free to do a search by keyword or company director name on the documents filed by private companies with Ireland's Companies Registration Office. The site claims to charge about 25 percent less (about IEP 1.50 per document retrieved) than the CRO does, and the service is available 24 hours a day. Once you've done your search and paid your cash you'll be able to view scanned images of the actual documents filed with the Office, complete with directors' signatures. Plenty of Irish firms have skeletons, and this is the closet where many are hidden. Earlier this year Ireland's Voluntary Health Insurance board spent a generous chunk of change to launch its web site, but there's nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. The hot new site Irishhealth.com is also aiming to be the web home of choice for surfers who care about their well-being. Get the usual information on cardiac and senior health issues, or check out alternative sections like complementary medicine (the Egyptians were at it - reflexology, that is - more than two millennia ago). Given Irish people's notorious unwillingness to spill the beans with their doctor, the "embarrassing problems" area is destined to be a hit, dealing with everything from lice and halitosis to more challenging problems, such as faecal incontinence and postnatal libido loss. |
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