Out of Sight With Joe G

Stuart Lawler is a tech genius but what of his other talents? Farmer, tractor driver, musician, tape magazine editor and librarian, composer, broadcaster, podcaster, champion Braille advocate and the voiceover artist who bookends this podcast. Next month he hosts the Sight & Sound Technology Exhibition in Dublin and Cork. Talk to us Stuart. VI Rugby is turning Japanese next month as the Old Wesley...

Ten years after their last international v Poland Ireland's Blind Football team return to Krakow for the re-match. We chat with team members Ruben Collins and Laurence Noonan. Sean Poland, key team management member and Education Training and Participation Coordinator, Vision Sports Ireland, describes the sport and its core rules. When Dominic Coyle bought his first tandem in London in 1974 he cou...

Kathryn Sinnott, Support Group Coordinator at Fighting Blindness, has loads of indoor activities for us to choose from this autumn. From online support and peer groups, to in person chats, to get up and dance. Our editor, Grainne, talks us through the return of the online Vision Sports Home Exercise classes. As we mark the new Premiership season we join Joe Lonergan as he takes us to his beloved a...

Next Thursday, 20 August, marks the 30 th anniversary of Bridie Lynch's Atlanta Paralympics Gold. It was Ireland's sole Gold and catapulted Bridie into national stardom with guest appearances on all the top shows. Where is she now? We crossed over the hills of Donegal to find her. Friday, 14 August, marks the 33 rd anniversary of Eamonn Coghlan's famous gold at the Inaugural World Athletics Champi...

Tracey Percy chats about the August Midlands Inclusion Games, open to all abilities, all ages from all Ireland. She also tells us about Ireland's first VI Hub where Laois Sports Partnership, Vision Sports Ireland and a host of sports governing bodies and local clubs collaborate to provide sport for all. We're at the cutting edge with Paul O'Rahilly and Grainne Geraghty as they dig out lots of tips...

20 years ago today –16 July 2006 – Tom Kennedy kayaked from Fishguard to    Rosslare. Since losing his sight at 19 he has navigated the World, using various modes, from the Arctic Circle to the Black Sea. We caught up with him on his lunch break in his beloved Kilkenny. Also, while in Kilkenny we step outside with Breda Dowling, Sales and Services Manager at Vision Ireland. From a 10,000 steps str...

We cycled the 30 th and final Trip2Tipp fundraising event and chatted with many participants. We met Mary O'Connor and Paul Joyce   who got lost and thought they were on the Trip2Limerick! We witnessed an early meeting of Kerry and Dublin as Mairead O'Mahony took on Joanne McCarney. Billy Shanahan and hist daughter Caitriona crunched the numbers on participants and funds raised for Vision Ireland....

No RTE World Cup audio description is seen as an own goal by many blind and vision impaired people. Earlier this year we recorded a fascinating interview with Virgin Media Six Nations AD commentator Ian McKinley.  Retired Paralympian Martin Gordon's passion for track tandem cycling took him from Sligo to Tokyo and Paris. Martin discusses the trials and tribulations of high performance cycling in a...

Paris Paralympic para-triathlete Chloe MacCombe chats about being at the crossroads. She urgently needs a guide to partner her on the road to LA 2028. Could you, or do you know of someone, who could guide a sprint triathlete - 7 50m swim , a 20km bike ride , and a 5 km run – in an hour or less?   After 30 years of his Trip2Tipp Billy Shanahan tells us he's locking away the bike helmet. Before he d...

From MayFest to Mizen2Malin to the Meta Marathon Man this episode criss-crosses Ireland and southern England. We hit the spot vox popping with 12 Vision Sports Ireland MayFesters including a couple just married. We also meet the man who has attended over 30 MayFests and his friend who travels from Switzerland each year to provide support. Maureen Madden takes us on the gruelling Mizen2Malin cycle...

As we celebrate the 45 th Anniversary of Vision Sports MayFest we look back on those magic moments, how it began. We meet the five surviving blind and vision impaired people   - Pat Kelly, Gerry Campbell, Martin Kelly, Tony Sweeney and Tony Scanlon - who participated in the 1978 UK National Athletics Championships in Scotland.  With little preparation they were frightened by the blast of the start...

Hop, skip and jump into Vision Sports Ireland MayFest '26 – the legendary annual multi-activity leisure carnival - with Sara McFadden and Kristina Millar. It's MayFest mayhem as event organiser Sara invites blind/vi people, family and friends to get lost in orienteering, rock climbing, tennis, weight lifting, golf, athletics, rugby and finishing with a BBQ.   It's fun, fun, fun as Kristina tells u...

Blind-sided after losing the sight of his left eye Ian McKinley rucked on to become a rugby Six Nations international. His second sight came about through adaptations including pioneering sports goggles. Ian talks us through his game of two halves from the Leinster Rugby Academy to Virgin Media pundit. It's love all as Stuart Haxell, an international blind/vi tennis player, goes to court on his fa...

B obbie Hickey, content creator and influencer, discusses challenges faced by blind/vision impaired people in social situations; Veronica Coffey takes us on a group stroll on the Maynooth Greenway while Clare McLaughlin takes us behind the "Seen Unseen" art project. Hello Bobbie 27 years old Bobbie Hickey has undergone more than 200 eye procedures as she journeyed through the phases of sight loss....

Lina Kouzi, librarian at Vision Ireland, reads us into accessible digital; Tandem stoker Paul Joyce loses us on the Mullingar greenway;  Áine Stanley leads us down the garden path to her allotment while Ireland's greatest cyclist leads us on the trip to Tipp. Books Most books loaned out by Irish librarians are in print format. In contrast, most books loaned by Linz Kouzi of Vision Ireland (VI) are...

Dancing in the Dark Let's dance with the fastest vision impaired athlete on the planet Jason Smyth MBE. We dance off too with Carol Carr and Jessica Kennedy in this Dancing with the Stars special. Get up, stand up Jason Smyth is the undefeated champion of both Paralympic sport and Dancing with the Stars.  Chatting with host Joe G Jason discusses how he moved from Greece lighting to grease paint. H...

Introduction to the Episode In the first full episode of "Out of Sight with Joe G" host Joe Geraghty welcomes us onboard and introduces the featured guest, Áine Stanley. Áine is Health Promotion & Physical Activity Practitioner at Vision Sports Ireland. Can't See, can be! New ideas on how we wish we to spend leisure time quite often float like butterflies and then flutter into the night, Áine Stan...

Introduction Stuart Lawler, a well-known voice in our community introduces Joe Geraghty, the host of the podcast "Out of Sight with Joe G." Purpose of the Podcast Stuart engages in a conversation with Joe to explore the motivation behind launching the podcast and what listeners can expect from upcoming episodes. Future Guests During the episode, Stuart presents an audio montage featuring future gu...