Promoting Sport and Physical Activity for people who are Blind/Vision Impaired of all ages and abilities.
Beyond Vision, Beyond Boundaries. MayFest turns 45.
Vision Sports Ireland brought together more than 250 participants, families, volunteers and supporters at University College Dublin on Saturday 16 May for the 45th annual MayFest – the landmark anniversary edition of Ireland’s longest-running annual multi-sport festival for people who are blind and vision impaired. The occasion marked 45 years since the very first May Games in 1981, and delivered Vision Sports’ most celebrated edition yet. Participants of all ages and abilities took part in an expanded programme of sports and activities across UCD’s world-class campus, supported by a dedicated team of volunteers from across the country as well as from headline sponsor Davy.
Beyond Vision 2025 – 2028
Beyond Vision 2025 – 2028 is Vision Sports Ireland’s ambitious new national strategy, designed to ensure that every person who is blind or vision impaired can access sport and physical activity wherever and whenever they choose.
The strategy signals a major cultural shift, moving beyond participation numbers to a nationwide commitment to inclusion, accessibility, and lifelong wellbeing.
Through Beyond Vision 2025 – 2028, Vision Sports Ireland will:
- Champion leadership in accessibility and inclusion by setting national benchmarks, convening the sector, and embedding inclusive practice across sport and physical activity
- Strengthen pathways across the lifecycle to ensure children, adults, and older people who are blind or vision impaired can access meaningful participation and progression at every life stage
- Promote sectoral awareness and cultural change by driving education, training, and policy influence so inclusion is understood, valued, and embedded across sport and society
- Amplify from within by ensuring lived experience shapes programmes, campaigns, advocacy, and evidence, and by elevating member and community voices
- Lead through governance excellence by embedding the highest standards of compliance, strengthening Board effectiveness, and ensuring transparent, accountable reporting
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Vision Sports Ireland is the National Governing Body for promoting sport and physical activity for people who are blind and vision impaired. We work closely with our NGB partners to offer a network of programmes and events across many sports and activities. This site will keep you up to date with the latest news, events and training opportunities offered by Vision Sports Ireland.
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Knowledge Hub
In line with Sport Ireland’s Research Strategy 2021-2027, Vision Sports Ireland is working to play its part in generating, capturing and sharing insights of people who are blind or vision impaired, to better understand, respond and develop better solutions to the challenges in accessing and participating in sport and physical activity in Ireland.
