Advocacy Talks with Vision Ireland
Welcome to Advocacy Talks from Vision Ireland. Hosted by Madeleine McNamara, Advocacy Talks aims to bring you conversations with interesting people about blindness, advocacy, and everything in between.
Contact the advocacy team at Vision Ireland by emailing campaigns@VI.ie .
Advocacy Talks with Vision Ireland
Latest Episodes
Advocacy Talks Episode 19 - Accessing music education with a vision impairment.
In this episode Madeleine chatted with Grace Gavin who is a 2nd year student at University of Limerick. She shared her love of music, both playing the piano and singing. She explained how she learns pieces for the piano despite her vision impai...
Advocacy Talks Episode 18 – Gaisce; Ireland’s Youth Awards
In this episode Madeleine spoke to Conor Clifford who is a Gaisce Youth Ambassador. He has achieved the bronze and silver Gaisce medals so far and having a vision impairment has not held Conor back. He shared his experience and love of Ireland’...
Advocacy Talks Episode 17 – The Independent Travel Support service
in this episode Madeleine spoke to Fiona Kelty, Independent Travel Support Assistant with Dublin Bus. She explained how this service works and shared some useful tips to help people who are blind or vision impaired travel independently on publi...
Advocacy Talks Episode 16 – How a blind man used Meta glasses and Be My Eyes to run a marathon.
If you want to be inspired then this episode is for you! Madeleine spoke to Clark Reynolds, aka Mr Dot, about his recent participation in the Brighton marathon where he achieved a world first, by using Meta glasses and the Be My Eyes app to be ...
Advocacy Talks Episode 15 – Traversing 3rd level education with sight loss; the good and the bad
In this episode of Advocacy Talks Madeleine spoke to Wiktoria Kaminska who is studying at Technical University Dublin in Tallaght. She is totally blind and has a significant hearing loss. Wiktoria described the many supports that are available ...