Fiddler reaches global audience with iPad teaching app

An award-winning teenage violin sensation has added a hi-tech string to her bow.

In December, Mairéad Hickey, 15, from Cork, developed a music education application for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch to teach beginners a set of traditional Irish airs.

Developed with Marion Roche Martin, a former Cork Institute of Technology student, the Irish Fiddler app is proving a global hit.