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Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind has received a donation of €5,493 from the Newmarket on Fergus Set Dancers. The set dancing club is being wound up and has decided to gift the remaining funds to the Guide Dogs. “We had a set dancing club and over the years over €100,000 would have been raised for different charities. “All the dancers could nominate a charity of their choice, we’d count the entries nd then a dance would be run for them. “The last time we had the voting done, Covid came along and that finished it. We came back to it a few weeks ago to get it sorted, we counted the votes and the Guide Dogs came up. “We didn’t have the dance for them, but as they club was winding up we decided to give them what was left and it was over €5,000,” said spokesperson Bridie Casey. Thomas Mernagh, convener of the Clare branch of Irish Guide …

AN Ennis woman who lost her sight at the age of 20 has described getting a guide dog as “life changing” as she urged people to support this Friday’s national Guide Dog Day. 39-year-old Cara Gibbons got her first guide dog, Uri, in 2013 describing him as “my rock”. Uri has since retired as a guide dog, though he is still with Cara, and she is now training with two-year-old Sadie. The Master’s student told The Clare Champion that having a guide dog has given her a freedom she never experienced while using a cane. “What I’ve found since having a guide dog, now I go for a walk just to go for a walk. I would never have done that with a cane, it was purely getting from A to B. Now I have that freedom of being able to leave the house and say I’m just going for a walk. It’s such a simple thing for so many …