A few thoughts...

[benin]

Is her name included here?

If so (and it may not be) I think I've whittled it down to the person who it must be, I somehow doubt it's Cecelia Ahern. NOTE: It is NOT Cecelia Ahern, that is a joke. Saying someone worked as an escort obviously isn't slander anyway.

If this is her, she's a bit on the chubby side isn't she...? Did she have that back then or pack it on since? Not a very nice person anyway obviously... it's sad to see someone can be so two-faced.

wow meave benchy...i did not see that coming...she let herself go since lincoln met her....

[nicegirlsarenice]

This may narrow it down some more.
Category:Irish women writers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hold on, that is of writers, not just novellists. That goes into poetry, non-fiction etc.

She wasn't a crime correspondant at the time of her escorting who sued for unlawful dismissal later was she?

[johnmurphy]

Is her name included here?

If so (and it may not be) I think I've whittled it down to the person who it must be, I somehow doubt it's Cecelia Ahern. NOTE: It is NOT Cecelia Ahern, that is a joke. Saying someone worked as an escort obviously isn't slander anyway.

If this is her, she's a bit on the chubby side isn't she...? Did she have that back then or pack it on since? Not a very nice person anyway obviously... it's sad to see someone can be so two-faced.

OK I am eliminating Liam O'Flaherty and James Joyce. Now let me see...

[aml]

Hold on, that is of writers, not just novellists. That goes into poetry, non-fiction etc.

She wasn't a crime correspondant at the time of her escorting who sued for unlawful dismissal later was she?

You will find that it only has females in the list it won't be too difficult to find the name.

[Lincoln]

She was an awesome working girl i have to say. I read her first book, it was ok but she said one of her main influences was james ellroy so I think she has a long way to go yet.

Over Christmas I bumped into her and another woman she used to work with out of an appartment in Temple Bar. I said hello as I always do when I bump into a working girl but she blanked me, movin on from past I suppose and really you should respect that I suppose, but jaysus I visited her at least 30 times (hell she even rang ME a few times) and dammit we got on really well....

so thats that, anyway its time for me to stop living in the past too

[warmcome]

I dunno, you might have something in the opinions section once in a blue moon about "under certain circumstances maybe it's not so bad" for both of them. Even though the press seem to treat them similarly, I think drugs and prostitution are polar opposites.

I disagree that the drug and prostitution industries are polar opposites.

They are not the same, granted, otherwise I could just ring a girl instead
of having to ring a dealer also. I will outline the stark similarities below:

Escorts and dealers possess that which customers believe they 'need'.
(often after I have shagged an escort or scored a €100 of Cannabis I see the
value of the transaction in a less desperate fashion. Addiction/compulsion are
terms we can use here.

Escorts and drugs have an inflated cost. If this expense is not controlled-a user
will end up broke. (You want more than you can earn).

The legality issues surrounding each, make each industry more dangerous than it need be.
(brothel-2 girls, criminality of drugs lead to set-up deals-muggings instead of drugs/inferior batches etc.)

Both industries are only understood or valued by people who are in them, (Ruhama, misguided pricks
protesting outside headshops.)

If you wish to argue this, please do so a paragraph at a time. Do not abuse a language-save 'polar
opposites' for when it really is called for.

w

[luther]

Escorts and dealers possess that which customers believe they 'need'.

Except an escort working alone is legal, dealing non prescription drugs is not..............

[bhoywonder]

wrong article

[carlos marvado]

What's the author's name? Or is it not common knowledge that she was a working girl?

It seems very hypocritical that she would make so much money out of the business only to go and publically have a go off the very people who would have funded her lavish lifestyle.

Got to disagree with that assessment of the former escort turned writer. When she was making a living from escorting, she had to act the part for her audience....the clients. When she moved into writing, her audience changed and once again, she had to give them what they wanted in order to make money. People don't buy rag mags or tabloids to read about people living ordinary hum-drum lives filled with marital bliss and fidelity......they want the shite on their neighbours, on celebrities, they want to read about the seedy underbelly of society.......why read boring shite when you want to escape from the boredom of your own existence? Having milked the clients as an escort, milking people's desire for the sensational or the salacious would have made perfect sense to her as a writer. It's similar to somebody having an affair with a rich/famous/powerful person for the obvious benefits and then doing a kiss-and-tell job for the obvious benefits. If anything, this lady was consistent.

[anitasizzle]

i do recall there being a very popular girl around that time named chelsea, but I always thought she was foreign. into antiques and had moved to Spain Please, someone PM the name, I'm dying to know and see if its' who I picture it to be,