Cancer survivor who created teacher app while in treatment shortlisted for youth enterprise award

A cancer survivor who used his time in treatment to come up with a way to match schools and substitute teachers has been shortlisted for a youth enterprise award.

Kyle McLoughlin from Boyle, Co Roscommon, was diagnosed with leukaemia in 2011, a year into a management consulting job with Accenture after completing business and corporate finance degrees at NUI Galway and University College Cork.

After a year of treatment and recovery, then aged just 23, he got the opportunity to develop the subteacher.ie project. In partnership with the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD), his software development company Posude set about establishing the database to connect second-level schools and teachers who are available for substitute work.