National Council For The Blind of Ireland
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Top tips: How to keep college costs down
- Education
- January 12, 2021, 05:55
1: Look out for scholarships. There’s a useful list of scholarships available to undergraduate students at careersportal.ie/scholarships. 2: Elsewh(...)

Dublin nursing home residents ‘terrified and angry’ over its threatened closure
- Social Affairs
- August 31, 2020
Residents of a south Dublin nursing home and supported living facility say they are terrified, devastated and “very angry” at its threatened closure. (...)

NCBI seeks donations of computer equipment
- Technology
- April 14, 2020, 12:42
The National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) has launched a new programme seeking donations of computer equipment that can be repurposed to gi(...)

Coronavirus: Council for the blind forced into ‘truly awful’ cutbacks
- Health & Family
- April 14, 2020, 00:56
The national charity supporting the blind has had to make “truly awful” cuts to safeguard the future of the organisation, due to a 30 per cent drop in(...)

Coronavirus: Lack of electronic transfers for blind allowance causing hardship
- Social Affairs
- April 7, 2020, 21:29
The decision by some HSE offices not to provide electronic fund transfers of crucial allowances is causing “unnecessary financial hardship” for blind (...)

Further strikes by health, social care workers ‘inevitable’ unless pay restored
- Health
- February 21, 2020, 10:11
Further strike action by workers in State-funded organisations providing health and social services is inevitable unless they receive restoration of p(...)

‘Asking for help should be the first step, not also the longest one’
- Health & Family
- October 30, 2018, 17:01
It’s often said that when you’re feeling down, asking for help is the first and, sometimes, scariest step. If you are looking beyond the help of frien(...)

Blind people need €45 a week extra for basic standard of living
- Health
- September 27, 2017, 17:50
Blind people need an additional €45 a week just to enjoy a minimum standard of living, according to new research which for the first time quantifies t(...)

The Paris metro has terrific design: why doesn't the Luas?
- Stage
- April 29, 2017, 05:00
Who doesn’t love the Luas? Smooth, clean and efficient, it gets you from A to B. And when the link-up is completed, it will also connect you to C, D, (...)

Eye patients at risk of irreversible sight loss due to delays - charity
- Health
- April 4, 2017, 01:06
Thousands of eye patients are at risk of irreversible sight loss because of delays in accessing treatment, according to a leading charity. Ophthalmol(...)