Max Crinion-Morgan is a Drogheda-based nursing undergraduate who has pressed pause on his healthcare career to try his luck as a medtech entrepreneur. His business is called RespÉire and its launch product is a respiration rate reader called the R3. The odd one out was respiration rate, which had to be manually assessed. He put his nursing degree on hold to start working full-time on the R3 in early 2025. “In the classroom, one of the first things we were taught was the importance of observations and especially the importance of respiration rate, which is known to be a difficult vital sign to monitor.

Source: The Irish Times March 26, 2026 21:09 UTC