Edinburgh Festival Fringe is one of the best known annual celebrations of arts and culture – and there’s a Co Down woman at the heart of it...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society CEO Shona McCarthy Shona McCarthy is sitting in a back office behind the Fringe shop on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. It’s a Friday afternoon in June, the city alive and buzzing with Swifties all waiting for the start of Taylor Swift’s European tour which kicks off in Murrayfield later this evening. But in this cluttered room full of posters and brochures, the real excitement is that the lanyards for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe arrived this morning.
“It gave me such a smile on my face,” McCarthy, CEO of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, says as she shows me her own..
