The Immigrant Council of Ireland claims organised crime gangs are running an international sex trafficking network stretching from Nigeria and Cameroon to Ireland — making them an estimated €600,000 per day.

The life of prostitution and sex-trafficking set out by Nina Burleigh (‘Pretty Woman’ hides the ugly reality of prostitution, Irish Examiner, Opinion, March 25) is one with which frontline agencies across Ireland can identify.

As Barack Obama’s reforms are blocked by a judge in Texas, it looks like the years of uncertainty for Irish immigrants in the United States will continue, writes Brian Killoran