Paralympics gold medallist Ellen Keane has been honoured in her home area of Clontarf, Co Dublin with a gold post box.
An Post transformed the post box with the message "Congratulations Ellen" and some gold paint.
Ellen Keane won Ireland's first medal of the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo, claiming gold in the SB8 100m breaststroke with the best performance of her life.
Competing in her favoured event, Ms Keane had set expectations high when she blazed through her heat, winning the race in a personal best time of 1:21.71, but she obliterated that mark in the final, going nearly two seconds quicker to take gold in 1:19.93.
Afterwards she revealed that not everything went to plan as her goggles filled with water as soon as she dived in, but she claimed that she may have been aided by that mishap.
"I don't think it's fully sunk in yet," she told RTÉ Sport. "When I dove in my goggles filled up with water but I think that was maybe a good thing because I couldn't see where the girls were around me.
"Just on the turn I saw [New Zealand's Sophie Pascoe] a little bit but I just had a gameplan in mind and I stuck to that."
Ms Keane made her Paralympic debut as a 13-year-old in Beijing in 2008 and won bronze in Rio but this time, in her fourth Games, she used all that experience to finally achieve her dream of winning gold.
A post box in Summerhill in Dublin was also painted gold for Olympic gold medallist Kellie Harrington, and post boxes in Skibbereen in Co Cork were similarly decorated for the gold medal winning duo Paul O'Donovan and Fintan McCarthy.
