What Dr Pádraig MacCarron discovered when he and Dr Gerard McCarthy analysed Irish death notice data and how they found unexpected patterns county by county.
Although not all deaths in Ireland are associated with Covid-19, it’s extremely useful to be able to map the effect that the virus has been having across the country in real time.
Dr Gerard McCarthy is a lecturer in the Department of Geography at Maynooth University. Dr Pádraig MacCarron is an applied mathematician and Complex Networks Researcher at the University of Limerick.
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/0505/1136496-death-notices-ireland-coronavirus/
