Organisation: Fighting Blindness

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>Stem cell therapy is a promising avenue for tackling visual impairment. Picture: File</p>

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Investing in research into vision impairment: The cure is waiting

This week's Retina International World Congress brings delegates from 23 countries to Dublin, with a chance for the public to quiz experts

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<span data-contrast="none" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US">"I seek out grants which could potentially support our counselling and peer support groups and also our new projects such as Sculpture for Visually Impaired, Dance for All and yoga classes, which I would like to put in place this year," Marta O'Connor, head of support services at Fighting Blindness</span>
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Working Life: Sculpture classes tailored to people who are visually impaired have proven to be a success

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Working Life: Our programme aims to genetically type people with inherited retinal diseases

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Charity pushes for drug to be made available to fight rare blindness disease

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Social-distancing with sight loss: living in the dark in a Covid-19 world

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Majority of sight loss preventable with treatment, charity says

Working Life: 'I catch the quiet 6:15 train, a place to gather my thoughts and plan my day'

Jackie Turner, genetic counsellor, Clinical Genetics Centre for Ophthalmology, Mater Hospital, Dublin

Thu, 14 Nov, 2019

The Shape I’m In with Shane Byrne: 'During the week we only eat natural food. There is no processed food whatever'

SHANE BYRNE likes to take on a challenge.

Fri, 21 Sep, 2018

Remembering the dead: Poignant reason behind Cork’s Zombie Walk

The organiser of Cork’s Zombie Walk reveals the poignant reason behind her involvement to Ellie O’Byrne

Mon, 16 Oct, 2017

Action demanded to reduce waiting-list time for people losing their sight

The Government is today being urged to tackle growing waiting lists for people losing their sight.

Thu, 12 Oct, 2017

Seeing the bright side after going blind at 25

Áine Mae O’Mahony became blind at the age of 25, but she discovered the strength to deal with this blow, saying we can find positivity in even the darkest times, writes Ciara O’Donnell

Thu, 12 Oct, 2017

Working life: Lynda McGivney Nolan, optometric advisor, Association of Optometrists

6.30am

Fri, 03 Feb, 2017

Call for publication of report on primary care eye services

Charity Fighting Blindness has called for the immediate publication of a long-delayed review of primary care eye services against a backdrop of more than 13,000 patients on waiting lists for eye procedures.

Sat, 12 Nov, 2016

Working life: Fionnuala Hickey, research manager, Fighting Blindness

6.45am

Fri, 04 Nov, 2016

London 2012 Paralympic Games - Athletics Friday 7th September

The Shape I’m In: Jason Smyth

HE may be known as ‘the fastest Paralympian on the planet’, but Jason Smyth is not about to get carried away by the third consecutive gold medal in the 100m sprint he earned in Rio.

Fri, 28 Oct, 2016

The ultimate road trip: 60 ultra-marathons in 60 days

Sixty ultra-marathons in 60 days — no bother for a man who only completed his first regular marathon three years ago.

Fri, 24 Jun, 2016

Working life: Avril Daly, chair of the Genetic and Rare Disorders Organisation

7am

Sat, 27 Feb, 2016

Blind charity advocates national registry of eye disease cases

Opportunities to benefit from major breakthroughs on sight-loss will be lost without a national registry of patients with eye disease, Fighting Blindness has warned.

Sat, 07 Nov, 2015

Riding high with jockey David Casey

DAVID CASEY is one of Ireland’s top jump jockeys. He has won a string of races and titles, including the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup.

Sun, 23 Feb, 2014

Missing final could be least of your worries

True confession: I spent a fair amount of yesterday’s game unable to make out what was going on.

Mon, 23 Sep, 2013

Plea not to hit the blind with further budget cuts

THE Government has been asked not to impose budget cuts which will further impact on the blind, as it emerged there could be a 20% increase in the number of people suffering from a vision impairment by 2020.

Fri, 14 Oct, 2011

Weight a factor in sight-loss condition affecting over-50s

WEIGHT has been identified by Irish researchers as a new risk factor for Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), the principal cause of sight loss in people over the age of 50.

Thu, 16 Sep, 2010

New research into use of stem-cell therapy to fight blindness

A new study aims to investigate the therapeutic potential of adult stem cells in combating the loss of vision in diseases such as Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD).

Tue, 07 Oct, 2008

Breakthrough therapy to combat blindness

SCIENTISTS for the first time have used gene therapy to dramatically improve sight in people with a rare form of blindness, a development that experts called a major advance for the experimental technique.

Tue, 29 Apr, 2008

Weight loss could improve sight

LOSING weight after the Christmas splurge won’t just leave you looking well — it could have you seeing well too, researchers say.

Tue, 01 Jan, 2008

Caution urged over bogus caller

A RESEARCH group at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) and the Health Services Executive (HSE) have warned the public not to be duped by a bogus fundraiser who is contacting people by phone and urging them to buy raffle tickets to help fight blindness.

Fri, 21 Dec, 2007