New app to help cash-strapped students get home late at night

A new app went live in Cork last night to ensure that cash-strapped college students will never be stuck for a cab ride home again.

The Project Dash (Driving All Students Home) is designed by NUI Galway students. It allows students to get taxis even when they have no cash, bank card or phone. Thousands of college students and some taxi firms have registered for the service since it was launched in Galway and Carlow.

Richie Commins, a final year business information systems student at NUI Galway who led the development of the project, was at UCC yesterday as part of a roll-out of the initiative.