What is myopia and can it be caused by children spending too much time on screens?

Pamela Lawlor's 10-year-old daughter, Hollie, had very little chance of escaping myopia.

“Both my husband and I are short-sighted, so we knew there was no hope she’d escape,” says the mum-of-one, an optometrist with Specsavers in Finglas.

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