 Charlton remembered these, and at the festival press conference in the Shelbourne Hotel on 2 October 1980 she accused them of being male chauvinists and bullies and doused them with yellow liquid which was later revealed to be beer.She worked with her sister and brother-in-law as an assistant editor of "The Hibernia Magazine" from 1964 to 1966.She founded and edited six issues of "Martello" from 1982 to 1990.