Find support, or help research
People near you who know what living with Macular degeneration is like, and ways you can help find better treatments.
Support groups in Ireland
- Fighting BlindnessFighting Blindness (Retina International member): patient-led Irish charity funding sight-loss research and offering counselling and support to people with vision impairment, incl. inherited retinal disease and AMD.All of Ireland
- Vision IrelandVision Ireland (formerly NCBI), the national charity for people with sight loss (EBU member); services and support regardless of cause, incl. AMD, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy and RP.All of Ireland
Contact details come from each group's own page and are checked every 3 months.
Help research
You do not need to join a trial to help. Below are the programmes we found in Ireland and how to reach them. You contact them yourself: Frontlight does not collect or pass on your details.
Give blood or tissue for researchResearchers use stored samples to find what causes Macular degeneration.
Share your health dataA registry collects health data, without your name, so research teams can study many people at once.
Take part as a healthy volunteerStudies need people without Macular degeneration to compare with. Family and friends can help.