Lauren O’Donovan, from Carrigaline, Co Cork, edits the literary anthology Howl New Irish Writing along with Róisín Leggett Bohan and Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh. She recently won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry award.
That's according to Mary Crilly of the Sexual Violence Centre in Cork who says anyone giving a character reference will have do to it in court under the proposed changes