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Opinion:
I am now blind - here are some tips for the sighted to help us along
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Vision-impaired woman:
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Forget the Bird Box challenge:
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challenging perceptions
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Caught Out
Australian YouTube star caught out faking 'honesty' social experiments
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second sight
Breakthrough as 'bionic eye' restores sight in blind patients
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deafblind
As many as 17,000 people in Ireland could have this disability... but no one knows for sure
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good boy
A guide dog threw itself in front of a bus to save his blind owner
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Hero
A guide dog threw itself in front of a bus to save its blind owner
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Guide Dogs
Bray man Joe Bollard says his guide dog taught him to 'look forward and not back'
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art for all
Incredible exhibition helps blind people 'see' artistic masterpieces with their fingers
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smart navigation
This headset helps the blind navigate the city they're in
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Donegal
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Losing my sight at 23 was traumatic, but my dog is with me every step of the way
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Oct 9th 2014, 8:00 AM
World Sight Day
In pics: Our guide dogs changed our lives
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compensation
Blind teenager awarded €3.2m in damages after court battle
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Dine in the dark
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don't turn a blind eye
Calls for measures to be introduced to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020
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easy reading
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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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Reunited
Dog who went blind reacts to seeing family for first time after eye surgery
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Challenge
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drawing a blank
Blind man attempts to draw things he's never seen
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PREVENTABLE
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Apr 3rd 2014, 4:59 PM
Snizzly Snouts
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Guide Dogs
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7.6k
Dec 8th 2013, 5:30 PM
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dirty streets
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13.5k
Aug 24th 2013, 8:30 PM
terry rosema
A partially blind photographer took these stunning images of storms
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13.7k
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spay that stray
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Inspirational
Blind man walks 140km from Longford to Dublin to help wheelchair users
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