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Our CEO, Finbarr Roche, was delighted to recently take part in the Pathways to Personalised Healthcare podcast, hosted by Jonathan McCrea. The podcast brings together voices of experts, clinicians, patient representatives and researchers to explore and determine ways to implement Personalised Healthcare within the Irish healthcare system. The…

Join Team Fighting Blindness for this year’s Vhi Women’s Mini Marathon! We want your support in the upcoming Vhi Women’s Mini Marathon on Bank Holiday Sunday, June 4th! On Race Day the party’s at Ely Place (within crawling distance from the finish line!) for pre-race celebrations.

We were delighted to support the launch of a new Rare Diseases Ireland campaign #GetRareAware at the Dáil on March 23. Get Rare Aware aims to bring politicians, medical experts and people living with rare diseases together to take action on under-resourced genetic services at the Department of Clinical Genetics at Children’s Health Ireland…

We have just launched a new Fighting Blindness newsletter! We are committed to supporting our community. We want to share more of the work we are doing here at Fighting Blindness so that you can understand how your support truly has an impact and makes a difference. We are excited…

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 at Super Valu, Main Street, Ranelagh, Dublin 6 and the winner’s name was published in the March…

Fighting Blindness-funded researchers at Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology have recently published a new study showcasing a novel promising gene therapy for many eye diseases including AMD, LHON, glaucoma, optic atrophy and others. On International Women’s Day 2023, we want to celebrate the work of the female…

Fighting Blindness is delighted to announce that we will be hosting the Retina International World Congress (RIWC24) in Dublin, from June 5-8, 2024. The last RIWC took place in Reykjavík, Iceland in June 2022 and was a hugely successful gathering of retinal experts. Fighting Blindness looks…

JCDecaux has announced that they will be working with five charity partners in 2023 and 2024, including Fighting Blindness. Further to a competitive process, the five charity partners that have been selected are – Fighting Blindness, Alone, Barnardos, Fairtrade and Peter McVerry Trust. This is the third time that we…

When you support Fighting Blindness you are making a real difference in the lives of those living with sight loss. Your support helps us to invest in research, offering significant hope for sight loss cures and treatments. Dr Sophia Millington-Ward, Smurfit Institute of Genetics,…

Our CEO, Finbarr Roche, was delighted to be in Longford on Saturday, December 10, to meet the family of the late Terry McCormack and to receive their generous donation to Fighting Blindness, which was raised as part of the Terry McCormack Memorial Cycle. The family of Terry…