Contact tracing app developed by Limerick brothers gets European funding

An alternative Irish contact-tracing app which makes no use of bluetooth or GPS location data, and which was previously rejected by the HSE and Enterprise Ireland, has been fully funded by an open source science initiative funded by the European Commission.

The news means the Tracing Ireland’s Population smartphone app, designed by Limerick data scientist Paul Byrnes and his brother Patrick, will be running almost head-to-head with the HSE’s own CovidTracker Ireland application when both launch in about six weeks’ time.