Mary Crilly of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork: ‘Don’t tolerate any abuse’

Mary Crilly will be a panel moderator at this year's Joy in the Park. She chats about the work she has been doing in the arts industry

Mary Crilly will be a moderator at a Couch Sessions at Joy in the Park with Minding Creative Minds. Pictures: Denis Minihane

Sitting down on a bench in Fitzgerald Park with co-founder and CEO of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork, Mary Crilly, on a sunny morning, she explains the hectic weekend she has just had. She spent it in her native Dublin, at the Longitude music festival, no less.

Crilly wasn’t there as an attendee though, instead she was there as part of the Safe Gigs initiative she founded. She tells of how her and the team put some 4,800 temporary tattoos of the Safe Gigs logo on youngsters, rolling up her sleeve to show she too got “inked”.