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Mr. Murphy, a retired valet, telephonist and unrepentant hoarder, owns a small house in Dublin’s north inner city, but his eyesight is failing and he cannot afford to pay for home care.

A group of telephonists are working in tightly packed rows of desks at a secret location in Kabul, taking calls from all around the country.

The device pictured here was aimed at both telephonists and for home use, and was one of many models trialled that year.

The 52-year-old has been blind since birth and had been comfortably in employment as a telephonist for West Mercia Police - then a common profession for blind people, but now superseded by technology.

For 25 years she had worked as a telephonist for the GPO.