F minus for content, effort, design...

Say hello to IrishCentral.com, but try not to stare in horror. This 'hideousity' is a new Web site aimed at the worldwide Irish diaspora. Sources tell me that Irish taxpayer money helped fund those who seem to have haphazardly flung together bits of stale design from the late-1990s world wide web, while the content still cannot shake itself away from that hokey 'Oirish' bullshit affectation that has never represented anything more Irish than a Lexington Avenue dive bar. And those ads! Garrish. (Why take ads anyway, if indeed the Irish government is footing the bill?)

Overall the site screams ugly. It's kind of like looking at a photograph of one of those stomach-churning meals from the 1970s...