A product design and technology graduate from Kerry has designed the world’s first fully accessible, multisensory pregnancy test.
Leah Shanahan from Tralee created the AMY test to ensure users with different levels of vision or additional disabilities could independently access their result.
The saliva-based, reusable, pregnancy test can deliver the result through touch, sound, and sight.
The University of Limerick graduate, who herself is visually impaired, says blind and visually impaired women are the only group excluded from the intimate moment of discovering their own pregnancy:
Meanwhile, Isabelle Bentley Curran from Tralee has claimed a top prize at the country's leading healthcare innovation conference.
She was honoured at the HSE Spark Summit.
Ms Bentley Curran received an award for her design of a balloon-based IUD insertion device which she created in collaboration with UL Hospitals Group.
Isabelle was one of three national winners who picked up the Design on The Frontline Winner’s Award through the HSE’s ‘Design on the Frontline (DOTFL) Student Scholarship initiative with her final year project earlier this summer.
27.08.25 REPRO FREELeah Shanahan and Isabelle Bentley Curran, both from Tralee, County Kerry, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Product Design and Technology from University of Limerick. Picture: Alan Place
27.08.25 REPRO FREEIsabelle Bentley Curran, from Tralee, County Kerry, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Product Design and Technology from University of Limerick. Picture: Alan Place
27.08.25 REPRO FREELeah Shanahan,from Tralee County Kerry, has designed the world’s first fully accessible, multisensory pregnancy test. Picture: Alan Place
