Last year the FAI embarked on a journey to create a new online experience for Irish football fans. With Drupal the framework of choice, the challenges ranged from how best to meet the needs of all stakeholders in the football family, to how to create a rich multimedia and responsive experience for users. Match statistics were crucial to the project; the key technical and architectural hurdle was how best to integrate with UEFA's complex API's to deliver real time coverage of games in a Live Match Centre.
Peter Sherrard, FAI Communications Director will present the football perspective on the website build while Daniel Walsh, Developer will present the technical challenges the project posed and how they were overcome to deliver a best in class solution.