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RTÉ’s Jacqui Hurley has written an inspiring children’s book about Irish sportswomen
A post shared by Jacqui Hurley (@jacquihurley7) on Aug 4, 2020 at 4:02am PDT‘It’s a children’s book sharing the fairytale stories of some of Ireland’s top sportswomen,’ she explained.The sports broadcaster tagged a number of the phenomenal women featured within the pages on her Instagram stories including the likes of Ellen Keane, Derval O’Sullivan, Katie Taylor, Annalise Murphy and more.‘Irish sportswomen have been breaking the mould for a long time,’ the blurb reads. ‘From Maeve Kyle becoming Ireland’s first female Olympian in 1956, to motorsport pioneer Rosemary Smith breaking the land-speed record in 1978.’‘Through the 1990s and 2000s we had world champions in Sonia O’Sullivan, Derval O’Rourke, and Olive Loughnane.