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.
Adams’s Co Louth constituency has been hit by a prostitution boom after tough new laws recently came into force in Northern Ireland which criminalise people who buy sex.
Pimps are now moving prostitutes into the Republic, which does not criminalise buying sex.
Today a special Sun investigation lifts the lid on how vice has landed at the doorstep of Deputy Adams.
The brothel we expose is above the Louth TD’s constituency office in Dundalk.
It is an apartment inside one of the town’s most historic sites, Queens Building — a former hotel once visited by ex US President Bill Clinton.
Our pictures show how the vice den is a few floors up from the Sinn Fein chief’s office on Crowe Street.
Prostitutes have been secretly selling sex here, unknown to the owners, landlords, tenants, or any other users of the building.
A Sun investigator went undercover to the brothel this week after finding an advert online.
In our first phone call to escort Miriam, the prostitute got straight to the point. When our man asked about her rates, she said: “Yes, what time? It is 100 euro for 30 minutes.”
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.”
Our man made an appointment to check if the sex racket was for real.
He arrived at the Queens Building complex, was buzzed in downstairs and directed to a top-floor apartment. Black-haired Miriam — who boasts of having a 36DD-22-36 figure — greeted him dressed only in a black bra and matching thong.
Gerry Adams unwittingly works just eight metres below the knocking shop
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.”
Although our investigator made his excuses and left, Miriam’s profile on escort-ireland.com boasts a string of reviews from satisfied clients.
Miriam’s profile says: “Meet the sensuous and provocative Miriam. She is a 29-year-old escort in Dundalk, Louth who has black hair, brown eyes and has stats of 36DD-22-36. Call now to arrange a date.”
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. ICI research found prostitution clustering along the M1 out of Northern Ireland, with 29 women profiled online in Louth compared to two in Down and three in Armagh.
Anti-Trafficking expert Denise Charlton (lol) said it is “clear those who run prostitution in the North are feeling the heat and are looking for a new patch”, adding that the Republic, which does not criminalise buying sex, appears to be a “haven”.
Charlton added: “After Northern Ireland moved to smash the business model for pimps, traffickers and thugs who run prostitution it seems the sex trade is seeking to exploit the differences in law between the two jurisdictions on the island.”
Chief Executive of the Immigrant Council Brian Killoran said: “Prostitution is a vicious, brutal and exploitative criminal enterprise which must be shut down by targeting the source of the cash involved. We must follow Northern Ireland’s lead and act without delay.”
Previous research by the ICI found over 90 per cent of women involved in Irish prostitution are of a migrant background.
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.”
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