Guide dog fund in honour of late journalist

A SPECIAL fund has been established in honour of the late Examiner journalist Maureen Fox to help train a newborn guide dog.

Ms Fox, who died at her home in Brittany, France, on December 17 last, aged 72, championed the work of the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind (IGDB) charity during her career with the then Cork Examiner.

In November 1982, she spent a day blindfolded and walked through the streets of Cork with the assistance of a guide dog to experience first-hand what life as a blind person would be like.