I accept.. But an established girl will not be put off by the odd Garda raid. They will still visit using more up market type accom, knowing they are safer, especially considering the attention the type of premises and working practices the Non-verified work with. But... there was a campaign of bullying and threatening being suffered by the independent good girls that made them consider Athlone a nuisance and not a good place to work. Cheryl was often in Athlone in the good old days, but got too much hassle and decided to not consider it viable at that time. What gets left behind is blatant and obvious prostitution, and this tends to draw the attention of local residents and by default.. the gardai. An independent girl working alone or with a friend is easily moved on or dissuaded to work in hassle.
I can actually remember being on the piss with Clyde and Kami in Killarney and he showing me threatening texts from the local "agencies" there. We had a laugh composing the answers of "fuck off"...