Are young eyes being damaged by too much screen time?

Temple Street News Are young eyes being damaged by too much screen time?

30 Jul

In News

Are young eyes being damaged by too much screen time?

RTE’s Morning Ireland investigates concerns from parents over eye damage. Package includes an interview with Dr Susan Fitzsimons, Consultant Ophthalmologist, Temple Street

Click here to listen.

All Content © Children's University Hospital, Temple Street 2014. Translation feature provided by Google.

Temple Street accept no responsibility for any translation errors.

Staff Log-in

Translate »

Cookie Overview

We use cookies on this website to improve your experience while you are using it, and to better understand how visitors interact with the website.

The purposes for which we use cookies are listed below. You can manage your preference for any purpose that is not strictly necessary to deliver the core website experience.

Necessary

Always Enabled

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information such as metrics on the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
_ga	0	2 years	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, camapign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randoly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gid	0	1 day	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.

Performance

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
_gat	0	1 minute	This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the colllection of data on high traffic sites.
YSC	1		This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
IDE	1	2 years	Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
test_cookie	0	15 minutes	This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the users' browser supports cookies.

Are young eyes being damaged by too much screen time?

Are young eyes being damaged by too much screen time?

Recent posts

Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) – Launches HSE Rainbow Badge Initiative for staff

Message to families attending CHI at Temple Street following the cyber attack on the HSE

Celebrating HSCP Day 2021 in Children’s Health Ireland

HPSC provides advice for parents following large increase in incidence of potentially serious tummy bug

Archives