Killenaule jockey Rachael Blackmore is featured in one of An Post's new stamps
Killenaule champion jockey Rachael Blackmore is one of the leading Irish sports women featured in An Post's new six-stamp booklet brought out ahead of International Women's Day on March 8.
Ms Blackmore, the first female top jockey at Cheltenham and the first woman to win the Aintree Grand National, is featured in the new set of stamps along with Olympic boxing gold medal winning boxers Kellie Harrington and Katie Taylor, the Ireland women's hockey team, who were silver medallists at the 2018 World Cup and have qualified for the finals again this year, and Ellen Keane, who won gold amedal at the Paralaympics last year.
Also included is Ireland’s most successful female track and field athlete, Sonia O’Sullivan, who won 16 major World, European and Olympic medals in her career.
The stamps were designed by Dublin studio Unthink and feature key sporting moments in the careers of the six sports women captured by photographers from Irish agencies Inpho and Sportsfile and for Getty Images.
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