Literary benchmark: Braille centre celebrates its 10th anniversary

POET Seamus Heaney and artist Robert Ballagh went back to school yesterday to join a group of youngsters marking a special occasion.

The pair unveiled a celebratory bench in the Sense and Grow garden of St Joseph’s Centre for the Visually Impaired in Drumcondra for the 10th anniversary of the National Braille Production Centre.

The bench, designed by Mr Ballagh, is inscribed with a poem in text and Braille by the Nobel Prize-winning poet entitled Seeing The Sky.