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Thu 09 Sep 2010Braille centre celebrates decade in operation
A BENCH commissioned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the National Braille Production Centre was unveiled at a ceremony in Dublin yesterday.
The bench, designed by Robert Ballagh and inscribed in Braille and in text with the Seamus Heaney poem Seeing the Sky,is located in the gardens of St Joseph’s Centre for the Visually Impaired in Drumcondra. The National Braille Production Centre, which last year produced 2,800 transcriptions of books into Braille for 492 students yesterday also launched Irish and maths text books in a computerised audio playback format.
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