Advocacy Talks with Vision Ireland

Sinead McSweeney shares her journey of sight loss due to Diabetic Retinopathy from the numerous surgeries to acceptance of having such low vision and how this has affected her life overall but particu...

2 Okt 202018min

Kevin Farrell of @Ablefest talks openly about his son Josh (9) who has Albinism. He chats about the struggles of the early days after diagnosis, the support Josh receives in school and through NCBI an...

1 Okt 202021min

Both Aoife Tierney and Anthony Curran, students with a visual impairment, chat about the positive impact Bookshare (Ireland’s largest digital accessible library) has been to them. From the struggles o...

15 Sep 202012min

Annette O'Connell chats openly about living life with AMD, the treatment she's on and how she's adapted her life as her vision has gradually deteriorated. Support the show

15 Sep 202014min

Eithne Walsh chats about the realities facing children with a visual impairment in the Irish education system – absences of support during Covid19, reform of Visiting Teachers and the importance of en...

8 Sep 202023min

Neasa Hourigan TD talks about her daughter’s visual impairment, the initial shock at diagnosis, the inaccessibility of local infrastructure for cane users, the challenges of back to school in a Covid1...

1 Sep 202023min

Paul Lynch of Crowe Ireland talks about his enjoyable and rewarding experience of recording audio books for NCBI service users as part of Crowe's corporate social responsibility partnership with NCBI ...

25 Aug 202010min

Brian Manning discusses how Braille has evolved and become digitalised and is still just a useful resource to children and adults alike and how assistive technology is there to compliment Braille rath...

20 Aug 202019min