Earlier today, I read said article in The Sun (The Sun was in a cafe; I wouldn't actually pay money for a copy of that rag).
Having read the article, I actually have doubts as to whether or not it reports on an actual happening, or if it is fabricated to justify the agenda of TORL and the likes.
From the Article
Comment
PROSTITUTES are selling sex from a brothel above Gerry Adams’s office, the Irish Sun can reveal.
The Sinn Fein leader unwittingly works just eight metres below the knocking shop.
If I remember correctly, according to detailed markings on a photograph within the relevant article in The Sun, the "brothel above Gerry Adams’s office" was actually located in the next building to Adams' Constituency Office (or possibly the building [or two] after).
It was not "directly above" Adams' Constituency Office whatsoever.
The Irish Sun can confirm that the vice den is a few floors up from the Sinn Fein chief’s office on Crowe Street.
Or a few doors up?
Asked what the cash would buy, Miriam replied: “Kiss, blow**b and sex.” The vice girl even boasted the cathouse was in full view of Dundalk courthouse.
She said: “Do you know where the courthouse is? I’m across the street from there. When do you plan to visit me? I’ll send you the address.”
I find the above bolden-underlined very hard to believe; I (and I would reckon most members of the E-I Community) find it very difficult to believe that an Independent Escort would choose to operate from a premises located yards from a courthouse (as well as from a serving TD's Constituency Office). And certainly, criminal elements (such as pimps and/or human traffickers) would certainly not choose to base their operation (or part thereof) directly opposite from a courthouse (for reasons which should be obvious).
The 29-year-old led him to a dimly-lit bedroom where she told him: “It’s 100 euro for half an hour. Blow**b, sex, different positions, kiss, girlfriend experience.”
Did this really happen?
The Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) say prostitution in border towns is soaring as sex buyers from Northern Ireland head south to avoid the new law.
The severe negative implications of Swedish-style Legislation has been well highlighted. It has also been well highlighted that ICI/TORL and Ruhama will actually benefit if they engineer conditions which will make Independent Sex Worker's lives difficult.
Anti-Trafficking expert Denise Charlton said it is “clear those who run prostitution in the North are feeling the heat and are looking for a new patch”
Pimping and human trafficking actually carry very severe penalties in the Republic Of Ireland. Unfortunately for TORL, said Legislation does not suit their agenda.
Also, would Swedish-style Legislation present the opportunity for human scum such as pimps and traffickers to "expand" their criminal operations into extortion rackets? (Think about it
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Sinn Fein chief Adams, who didn’t know about the knocking shop, told the Irish Sun: “Anyone with information about brothels should give that to the police. It is important the onus of responsibility is placed on the user rather than the prostitutes.
“It is equally important that on this issue as on so many others that the criminal justice system on this island protects those who are being exploited and allows no hiding place for those involved in criminality.”
Ah, come on now Gerry