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Retina 2020 shortlisted for best Educational Meeting of the Year (webinar)  Fighting Blindness are delighted that Retina 2020 has been shortlisted in the Educational Meeting of the Year (webinar) category at the 2021 Irish Healthcare Awards. The Irish Healthcare Awards are Ireland’s leading and most prestigious medical Awards.

Fighting Blindness is a patient-led charity with a vision to cure blindness, support people living with sight loss and empower patients. We are the only Irish charity funding research into treatments for sight loss. To date, we have invested over €20 million in more than 115 research and clinical projects.

Paris2Nice is a unique and exceptional non-competitive charity cycle that raises much needed funds for charities throughout Ireland. For the past 6 months Suzie King and Stephen Surdival have been preparing for the 6 day cycling challenge.  As if this was not difficult enough, Suzie is also visually impaired and…

Our popular “Living Well with Sight Loss” course is returning in September and is now open for registration and available to everyone living with a sight condition in Ireland. The free course will begin on Thursday 30 September and runs every Thursday from 11am to 3pm (with a lunch break).

Fighting Blindness is delighted to announce the launch of our Retina 2021 Scientific Programme. Taking place on Friday, November 05, 2021, the Scientific Programme of Retina 2021 will take place via our bespoke virtual platform designed to promote even greater engagement and knowledge exchange this year! This will also include…

The 19th September is just around the corner!!

We are delighted to announce our Steps4Sight winners for 2021!

Join Victoria Smurfit and her daughter Evie for an intimate evening to celebrate the work of Fighting Blindness. RSVP to Kevin.Whelan@fightingblindness.ie or for further information please contact fundraising@fightingblindness.ie

Retina Network Ireland is a new all-island network for early to mid-career researchers, clinicians and allied healthcare professionals in the area of vision and retinal disease who are based in, or affiliated with, Irish Institutions. The goal of this initiative, which was launched at Retina 2020, is to provide networking…