Web Development Company in Dublin

Dublin web scopes climb steadily from brochure site to platform to public-body build. Proposals are fixed-fee, billed in EUR with Irish VAT (23 percent) applied where required. A scoped marketing or brochure site is a six to ten week engagement on Next.js or Astro with a headless CMS (Sanity, Storyblok, or Contentful), Stripe Checkout if payment-bearing, EAA 2025 EN 301 549 accessibility, and DPC-grade cookie consent. A B2B SaaS marketing site adds a pricing page, ROI calculator, and HubSpot or Salesforce integration patterned after HubSpot EMEA or Workday EMEA polish. Full B2B SaaS web platforms span a marketing site, customer portal, billing UI, and admin console. Government and public-body builds under the gov.ie design system with Gaeilge bilingual UI sit higher because of OGCIO procurement overhead and accessibility audit requirements. Dublin sits above Cork and Galway because of the Stripe, HubSpot, and Intercom talent premium.

The Data Protection Commission has been one of the strictest cookie consent enforcers in the EU, with public fines and reprimands against Meta, Yahoo, and others, and detailed guidance published in 2020 and updated since. Compliant banners require pre-checked boxes to be unchecked by default, granular per-purpose consent (functional, analytics, marketing, personalisation as separate toggles), parity between reject-all and accept-all (no nudging or dark patterns), no scrolling-as-consent, no continued-browsing-as-consent, a documented withdrawal mechanism as easy as initial consent, and a documented basis for any legitimate-interest claim. We default to Cookiebot, OneTrust, or Osano configured to DPC posture, integrated with consent-mode-aware analytics (Plausible or Fathom EU-hosted, or Google Analytics 4 with Consent Mode v2 if business demands it), and document the consent flow in the DPIA. Re-prompting cycles are typically 6 to 12 months.

The European Accessibility Act (EAA) Directive 2019/882 was transposed into Irish law via the European Union (Accessibility Requirements of Products and Services) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 636/2023) and becomes enforceable on 28 June 2025. EAA extends accessibility requirements that previously applied mainly to public sector under the Web Accessibility Directive (transposed via S.I. 358/2020) into the private sector, covering e-commerce, banking services, e-books, electronic communications, transport ticketing, and audiovisual media. EN 301 549 V3.2.1 is the harmonised technical standard, which incorporates WCAG 2.1 AA plus additional requirements. Our EAA-ready builds ship with axe-core in CI gating every deploy, manual NVDA and VoiceOver testing on critical user journeys, accessibility statement page conforming to the model EU template, and a documented feedback mechanism. Non-compliance can attract fines up to EUR 60,000 plus daily penalties under the Irish regulations.

Yes. The gov.ie design system is governed by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO) and applied across Department of the Taoiseach, Department of Public Expenditure NDP Delivery and Reform, and the broader gov.ie estate. We build under gov.ie typography (Lato), colour, spacing, and component patterns, with Gaeilge bilingual support meeting Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021 obligations including the schedule for 20 percent of public-body advertising in Gaeilge by 2030. Accessibility ships under Web Accessibility Directive (S.I. 358/2020) requirements with EN 301 549 V3.2.1, accessibility statements following the OGCIO model, and feedback mechanisms wired to gov.ie patterns. Hosting defaults to AWS eu-west-1 with documented data residency, and we deliver OGCIO procurement-friendly documentation suitable for OGP (Office of Government Procurement) frameworks like SaaS, RM6068, or ICT category sourcing.

Stripe's EMEA HQ sits on 1 Grand Canal Plaza in Dublin Docklands, which means Dublin Stripe integration expectations are higher than almost anywhere else. We build Stripe Checkout, Stripe Elements, and Stripe Billing flows with full PSD2 SCA via 3D Secure 2 (mandatory across the EEA), Stripe Tax configured for Irish VAT (23 percent standard, 13.5 percent reduced, 9 percent hospitality, 0 percent specific exemptions) plus all EU OSS and IOSS configurations for cross-border B2C, Stripe Connect for marketplace builds with Connected Accounts and Express onboarding, Stripe Identity for KYC where Central Bank of Ireland conduct rules apply, Stripe Radar with custom rules for fraud, and Stripe Customer Portal for self-serve subscription management. We pattern after Stripe's own public documentation and Stripe Press's design vocabulary, plus public Stripe customer case studies from Intercom, Wayflyer, and Workhuman.

Yes. The Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021 introduced obligations for public bodies, language schemes notified to An Coimisinéir Teanga, and the target that by end of 2030 at least 20 percent of public-body advertising and 20 percent of public service recruitment will be in Gaeilge. Our bilingual builds default to next-intl, next-i18next, or @nuxtjs/i18n for routing, with /en and /ga URL prefixes, locale-aware metadata and OpenGraph, hreflang annotations, and content workflows in Sanity, Contentful, or Storyblok where translators can edit Gaeilge content in parallel with English. We work with Foras na Gaeilge and EU TermCoord termbases for terminology consistency, and have shipped patterns for state agencies, semi-state bodies (Bord Bia, Bord Fáilte, IDA Ireland), and private-sector clients targeting Gaeltacht regions in Conamara, Donegal, and Kerry.

Hosting defaults are Vercel with Dublin Functions region (which uses AWS eu-west-1 underneath), Cloudflare Pages with Cloudflare Workers running on the global edge including Dublin POP at INEX, AWS Amplify in eu-west-1, Netlify with EU region, or Fly.io with Dublin (dub) region. For Central Bank of Ireland supervised entities and Pfizer-adjacent regulated workloads we default to AWS Amplify or AWS Elastic Beanstalk in eu-west-1 with full Landing Zone integration, customer-managed KMS keys, and documented Article 30 DORA third-party register entries. Cloudflare's Dublin POP gives sub-15ms TTFB across the island of Ireland and into Belfast. For static marketing sites we frequently default to Cloudflare Pages because of free EU egress, R2 storage with no egress fees, and Cloudflare Images for responsive image transforms, paired with Sanity or Contentful for content.

The EU AI Act entered into force on 1 August 2024 with phased application: prohibitions from 2 February 2025, general-purpose AI obligations from 2 August 2025, high-risk system obligations from 2 August 2026, and certain article exemptions to 2 August 2027. For web surfaces this typically means: clear disclosure that a user is interacting with an AI system (chatbot transparency), watermarking or labelling AI-generated content, transparency notices for AI-assisted search or recommendation systems, and risk classification documentation kept on file. Our AI-bearing web builds ship with model cards for any custom or fine-tuned models, transparency UI patterns (banner on AI chat surfaces, content label on AI-generated copy), documented evaluation harnesses for AI features that influence material decisions, and DPC-aligned DPIA where personal data is processed. For high-risk classifications the documentation burden goes substantially higher.