Participants in this year’s Dublin Marathon will take home a medal with an image of Countess de Markievicz. The medal will commemorate 100 years of women in Irish parliamentary politics.
1918 was the first time Irish women were permitted by law to vote and stand in parliamentary elections. In that year, Countess de Markievicz was elected to the House of Commons, but boycotted Westminster in favour of the revolutionary Dáil Éireann, becoming the first woman MP and TD.
The Houses of the Oireachtas have teamed up with the SSE Airtricity Dublin Marathon 2018 to create this unique commemoration as part of the Vótáil 100 programme.
Read the full press release or visit Vótáil 100 to find out more.