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A huge thank you to everyone who entered the Fighting Blindness raffle draw for a  €2,000 holiday voucher to the Canary Islands. Your support means the world to us. The draw was held in Charlestown Shopping Centre and the winner’s name is to be published in the March 30 edition…

Fighting Blindness is delighted to announce that the Rotunda Hospital RetCam Appeal is growing ever closer to funding the equipment and training to assist medical staff in saving the sight of premature babies being cared for in the maternity hospital on Dublin’s northside. Smaller and more premature infants…

Aligned with our strategic goals, Fighting Blindness wish to support, nurture and promote the next generation of female researchers. With this in mind, we celebrated International Woman’s Day by hosting an online event on Tuesday, March 8 together with its4women,…

Fighting Blindness has presented a diamond award in ‘recognition and thanks’ to its sponsor, leading online car insurance company, its4women, for the ‘incredible and generous support’ that was instrumental in securing a RetCam machine for the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin;…

Aligned with its strategic goals, Fighting Blindness wish to support, nurture and promote the next generation of female researchers. We therefore invite you to join us and our guest speakers on our International Women’s Day #BreakTheBias event on March 8, kindly supported by its4women, as we discuss the…

For the third year in a row, we are very proud to award our Young Female Researcher Bursary to a promising early stage female researcher working in the area of sight loss in Ireland. Early stage/career is defined by us to include: Research students PhD students Postdoctoral researchers…

This Friday 4 and Saturday 5 November, join us for our award-winning Retina conference. Retina 2022 will bring together top international and Irish researchers and clinicians in the global effort to find treatments and cures for conditions causing vision impairment and blindness. We will have plenty of further details…

Here at Fighting Blindness, we recognise that partners and spouses are often faced with particular challenges in supporting their loved ones who are living with sight loss. You may have feelings of sadness, anger or anxiety relating to your situation and this can affect you and your family on a…

Fighting Blindness are partnering with Active Connections to provide opportunities for visually impaired young people (aged 12+) to participate in their fortnightly Embers Programme or Summer Camps. Places are limited to 5 young people living in the CHO 5 area (South Tipperary, Carlow/Kilkenny, Wexford Waterford) and 4…

Join us this February for our virtual Living with Sight Loss course. The popular confidence building course is open to those living with vision impairment. The free course will begin on 10 February and runs every Thursday from 11am to 3pm (with a lunch break) for five weeks. Living with…