We’ve added some extra payment options to make paying for your ad on DoneDeal.ie even easier.

Realex Payments is a leading European payment service provider and even better are an Irish company and they have come on board with us so that we can now take Visa and Mastercard payments directly.

The best part of working with Realex is that we can finally accept laser card payments for ads on DoneDeal.  Hopefully these extra payment options will make using our site even easier for our DoneDealers.  Let us know what you think.

We are delighted to see our loyal “DoneDealer” extended family is ever increasing. To match this increase the support team is extending to meet our valued customers needs. To help us with this we have partnered with our friends at Rigney Dolphin. We would like you to join us in welcoming them with open arms to our growing family. Rigney Dolphin are a leading business process company providing a range of inbound and outbound customer related services to their clients through their contact centres in Waterford City and Dublin.

Kevin is the latest addition to the DoneDeal family.  We would like you to join us in making him feel at home.  Kevin will be working alongside Declan on the web development side of the site.

Kevin lives in Wexford with his wife and little boy, Joshua.  He is originally from Dublin but dont hold that against him!!  He loves music and plays the keyboards when he can.  His favourite band is XTC and he has been known to watch Lord of the Rings on more than one occasion.

Please send him a message to welcome him aboard!

We have some great news, Fred has been shortlisted as a finalist in the category Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, 2010.  We wish him the very best of luck.  You can read more about the emerging finalists here or about Fred here and we’re all looking forward to the results in October.

Thank you to all of our lovely DoneDeal.ie advertisers and buyers – without you guys, we couldn’t have made it to the big old age of 5!

To celebrate our birthday this year, we’ve got 300 birthday party packs to send out to the first 300 people to wish us a happy birthday!  Our birthday packs include a birthday bun, candle, party hat and a balloon.

Just email Happy Birthday in whatever language you choose to birthday@donedeal.ie with your full name and postal address by Friday 11^th June