Ms Ciara Lynch:

You just move on, or you just avoid the next gig. If another person has told you not to do a gig - to drop out of it if a certain MC is there - you just avoid it. As I said earlier, there is a privilege with that whisper network. It became very clear to me that I was privileged to be part of the whisper network by virtue of being in the scene for as long as I was, whereas newer and less experienced comics coming up were not part of it. They have suffered now and have left. That is why we set up Comedy Safety Standards and that is why we joined with SAOI. We know we are not going to benefit from all the work we have put in, but we are doing it for other people coming up. We are doing it because it should be a safe working environment. That is what it is - a working environment. It should be safe, and it is really not.