Analysis: social and community bonds in Ireland remain strong and people see the app as an individual and collective response to the pandemic Last weekend I downloaded the COVID Tracker app.
Over a million of us have done so, a download rate which has come as something of a surprise at home and abroad. The rate of download is high compared to other countries where the app is voluntary, and it is high as a percentage of the total population.
How can we explain the download rate of this application in Ireland? The answer lies somewhere in the structures of social belonging, inclusion and exclusion in Ireland. In this together Despite widespread talk of individualism, research in the Department of Sociology at Maynooth University has found