About the Book
For the first time ever, Out of Sight! explores the rich history of sport and leisure as experienced by Ireland’s blind and vision impaired athletes, their families, friends, and coaches. Author Joe Geraghty is Ireland’s foremost expert on sport for blind and vision impaired people, a trail blazer on and off the athletics track. Join Joe and dance along with Paralympics gold star Jason Smyth, swim along with teenage sensation. Róisín Ní Ríain; spin along in tandem with Katie-George Dunlevy, cycling’s most successful Paralympian: swing along with ex-NYPD captain Paul McCormack who lost his sight after 9/11 before turning to blind golf. Jump into the world of multi-sport with seventimes Paralympian Catherine Walsh.
Meet these sportspeople and many more who live with sight loss but kicked on in sports including blind football, adapted rugby, tennis, or picked up the pieces with braille chess. In a “can’t see, can do” world, anything goes.
About the Author
Joe Geraghty is a founding member of Vision Sports Ireland. As an athlete he won eight Irish national track titles as well as winning three UK national gold medals from 1981 to 1985. In 1983 he won silver at 5000m at the IBSA European Games in Bulgaria and subsequently represented Ireland at the 1984 Paralympic Games in the USA. Off track Joe has dedicated his life to supporting the work of Vision Sports Ireland serving in numerous roles over five decades.
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