About Us
Who are we?
Vision Sports Ireland, a subsidiary of Vision Ireland, is the Sport Ireland national governing body for sport and leisure opportunities for people who are blind or vision impaired in Ireland.
Founded in 1988, Vision Sports Ireland is a not for profit organisation and registered charity.
Vision Sports Ireland promotes a wide variety of adapted and mainstream sports and physical activity opportunities including athletics, golf, football, swimming, tandem cycling, tennis, triathlon, walking, rugby and many more. Vision Sports facilitates opportunities for people of all levels of fitness and abilities.
Vision, Mission and Guiding Principles
Our Vision
All blind and vision impaired people in Ireland will have access to and enjoy the health benefits derived from regular participation in sport and recreational activities of their choice.
Our Mission
To enable blind and vision impaired people to step on to, and climb should they wish, the sports and leisure ladder.
Our Ambition
A society where all people who are blind or vision impaired, regardless of ability, can access sport and physical activity wherever and whenever they choose.
Our Guiding Philosophy
Start Well. Live Well. Age Well.
Strategy
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