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Blindness
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Young Scientists
Cork students unveil jacket that helps people with visual impairments detect objects around them
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Gillian Stafford
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Future Focus
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10 Feb 2019
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cone dystrophy
'I don’t know any different': Former Voice of Ireland star refuses to let sight loss hold her back
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challenging perceptions
'People always say my dad is amazing. He's not, he's just blind'
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World Sight Day
'It puts holes in the retina': Thousands at risk of blindness due to diabetes-linked eye disease
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threefold increase
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making a difference
'Technology is the great equaliser' - how two apps for those with impaired sight are levelling the playing field
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put the phone down
Using your smartphone at night could make you temporarily blind
1 Nov 2016
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second sight
Breakthrough as 'bionic eye' restores sight in blind patients
5 Jul 2015
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Voices
My 2014: I met the Taoiseach, President Obama, and put spinal injuries on the global agenda
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Blindness
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Voices
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Lean Kennedy
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don't turn a blind eye
Calls for measures to be introduced to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020
16 Jul 2014
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Diabetes
'I went to look at myself in the mirror and I couldn’t see my face'
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Awareness
Have you had an eye test in the last two years? Half of people in Ireland haven't
15 Jun 2014
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PREVENTABLE
Irish people going blind waiting for cataract surgery
3 Apr 2014
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Discovery
Trinity researchers make blindness breakthrough
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eyes wide open
These are the sights Irish people would miss most
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Voices
Column: Why are over two thirds of blind people in the world women?
Michael Marren
4 Dec 2013
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Voices
Column: I went blind at 14 – but my guide dog Miles has changed my life
Kevin Kelly
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what a racket
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bat signal
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Jury Duty
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sensory
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sight
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Irish Rail
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Sight Loss
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19 Sep 2011
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Vision
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