Public Purse - Helping citizens learn more about their locality w/William Kennedy - 01/10/26

The KCLR Daily with Brian Redmond · Oct 1, 2026 · 22m

William Kennedy – from Kilkenny has built Public Purse, a website that aims to index all line-item expenses for each government entity, including Carlow and Kilkenny. He is a software development contractor (he owns his own business) who has traditionally worked on large-scale applications, but he recently became interested in how the government spends our money. Public Purse uses a combination of software and new AI innovations that help citizens, and hopefully elected representatives, learn more about the inner workings of their locality. The main aim is to answer the question: why was the…