Gardai and sex workers in Ireland.

4 comments

1. Interesting story, terrible title OP, and the framing of the tweet by another tweet is a bit off because there’s no Nordic models on the streets of Dublin as far as I can see.

2. I think those young N.W.A kids might have had a valid point…

3. I studied this in Sociology and thought it was a joke how the actual sex workers were excluded from the decision making processes. Frances Fitzgerald just wanted to be the big hero for her own demographic. The below is a great study that I read.

   ‘Problematizing Prostitution in Law and Policy in the Republic of Ireland: A Case for Reframing’

   Social & Legal Studies 2016, Vol. 25(3) 289–309

4. Shouldn’t someone point out that this seems to be the testimony of a street prostitute…

   There are almost zero street prostitutes in Ireland. Almost all the sex workers are online, by phone, in apartments.

   There are always a few street prostitutes and they are usually heroin addicts, but street prostitution is almost unheard of in Ireland and has been since the Internet arrived in the 90’s/2000s.