Ireland's first Blind Tennis team: ‘When the racket connected with that ball, I got butterflies in my tummy’

The fastest growing sport among Ireland’s blind community is celebrating its one-year anniversary by sending its first team to compete abroad.

The eight-person Irish Blind Tennis team is in Alicante, Spain this week for the International Blind Tennis Tournament – itself a first for the nascent sport.

And if Blind Tennis seems an unlikely sport to the uninitiated, that’s exactly how it sounded when first pitched to Vision Sports Ireland (VSI) last year.