Get smart with phone app, SMS Tutor, aimed at helping exam students

Helen O’Callaghan talks to former TV musical director Frank McNamara about his phone app aimed at helping Leaving Cert and Junior Cert students study for their exams.

IT wasn’t the kind of text a dad usually sends his teenage son – “The slow movement of the Mozart Piano Concerto is in F sharp minor. This is the only time Mozart ever wrote in that key.”

Composer and pianist Frank McNamara was texting his twin sons, Frankie and Quincy. It was February 2014 and the two were studying for their Leaving Cert mock exams.