When Rebecca McManus was 23, her mother died of breast cancer. When she was 27, her father died of Parkinson’s and dementia. Now 29, she’s been awarded a €500,000 research grant by Enterprise Ireland for an AI-based voice app that aims to keep people with mobility-related illnesses living independently at home for longer. Talking to The Currency over coffee in Dublin, McManus is matter-of-fact about what she and her siblings went through. “It was tough for our teens and twenties … [but] you get on with it, it’s just a part of life,” she said. McManus always wanted to be…

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