“Operators which supply pubs with jukeboxes began contacting me. After trialling it in some local pubs with existing jukeboxes he put a demo on the TouchHits website. Taking out a bank loan sufficient to buy a used car, he set up TouchHits and started working on the software in 2012. The technology being used in many bars was often expensive and complicated to use, he explains. Mr McCrossan, a software engineer, got involved in the jukebox business when his father, who provided equipment to the bars trade, asked him to come up with a solution that would make it easier for digital jukebox users to find the tunes they wanted to play.

Its most recent offering is the JukePad which was launched early this year.

Based in Kells, TouchHits started out by developing software for use with digital touchscreen jukeboxes in 2012 which it sells to customers in the UK, Cyprus, Spain and New Zealand.