Winners announced at the Gala Awards Dinner on 9th October 2008  at the Mansion House Dublin Opened by Minister Sean Power T.D.and now in their 4th year, the Inspired IT Awards were created by iReach to recognise heads of IT and their teams for their strategic role in helping to drive competitiveness and place Ireland at the forefront of knowledge creation and IT innovation globally. Supported by a wide range of sponsors including HP, SAS, Dell, Datapac, Magnet Networks amongst others. Winners included Revenue Online, Cahill May Roberts, Permanent TSB, RTE, Genzyme, Perlico, ESB, eircom and AIB. These Awards have now been established as the focal point in Irish ICT calendar highlighting the achievement of IT Executives and their teams in Ireland. In 2008 iReach recognised 12 category winners across the island of Ireland representing all types of organisations; government departments, SMEs, global multi-nationals and leading indigenous companies.  Over 400 attendees from the Irish IT and Telecoms community attended the Gala dinner in the Mansion House, Dublin.

2008 Winners Announced Financial Services   Permanent TSB - Text Banking Winner EBS - Solas Finalist Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical   Genzyme - GWAP Winner Analog Devices - Process Intelligence Finalist Health and Education   Whole School NI - www.wholeschool.tv Winner Institute of Leadership and Healthcare Management Finalist Retail, Distribution and Logistics   Cahill May Roberts - Movianto Winner Nifty Nosh - Supply Chain Finalist Hospitality Travel and Transport   Failte Ireland - eBusiness for Tourism SMEs Winner Web Reservations International - Web 2.0 Finalist Business Services   RTE - News Now Winner Rabo - SME online business savings Finalist IT & Telecoms & Media   Eircom - Speech Enabled Branch Banking Winner Hosting 365 - Cloud Computing Finalist Government   Revenue Commissioners - ROS.ie Winner My Group NI - www.mygroupni.com Finalist

2008 Overall Award Winners Inspired IT Project of the Year AIB - Olympus Programme Inspired IT Team of the Year Perlico Inspired SME Project Project of the Year Processmaster - Leanpad   Green Project of the Year ESB - Cul Green Beyond Endurance - BE ABLE Media Awareness in IT  WHPR & Sony Professional Services

Opening address by Minister Sean Power T.D. Seán Power, T.D. Appointed Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources (with special responsibility for the Information Society and Natural Resources) in May 2008. Appointed Minister of State with special responsibility for Equality Issues at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law reform, June 2007. Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children 2004-07 First elected to Dáil Éireann 1989 and at each subsequent election.