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An Irishman in New York

Anyone obsessed with celebrity would have had a field day at Vision Expo East in wet and windy New York, writes Rory Brogan.  There aren’t too many optical shows where your interview with a frame company comes to a halt because Mickey Rourke needs the booth for some ‘R and R’ after a marathon photo [...]

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Inmate pulls out eye number two

For those of you who are faint-hearted, turn away now. A Texas inmate, jailed for murdering his wife, his son and his wife’s 13-month-old baby, tore out his only good eye and ate it - five years after tearing out his right eye. Death row inmate Andre Thomas, 25, was found with blood on his face [...]

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The end of optometry

Although its been widely accepted that supermarket opticians have not brought about the apocalypse in optometry that some doom-mongering practitioners envisaged, the thought of another major retailer trying its hand at providing GOS could bring some practitioners out in a cold sweat, especially if the name Woolworths is mentioned.

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Interdisciplinary working

Politics is a dirty business, especially in America. In North Carolina the speaker of the local parliament, who also happens to be an optom has had to hand in his badge after a political scandal The fact that he’s being sent to jail probably means his inability to practise is not of too great a [...]

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