Advocacy Talks with Vision Ireland

About 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 .

Publisher

Vision Ireland

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Apr 2020

Latest episode

19 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

112 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Aug 2026

   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 impairment and how she undertook music education in secondary school. Support the show

2. 

   22 Jul 2026

   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’s Youth Awards in the hope that you will be inspired to take part. Support the show

3. 

   24 Jun 2026

   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 public transport. For contact information to avail of this service nationally visit Independent Travel Support - Transport for Ireland. Support the show

Who has been a guest on Advocacy Talks with Vision Ireland

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Tytti Matsinen
• Peter O’Toole
• Méabh Conneely
• Stuart Haxell
• Stuart Lawler

Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100

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Social presence

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