A woman made homeless by rising rents and who has been forced to live in a women’s refuge for the last two months has pleaded for a council home.

As someone who has studied prostitution and the harm and misery for the women involved, I think it is time that this highly lucrative industry, from which traffickers and prostitution agencies profit, was curbed.

A MAJOR study has found significant intimidation, violence, lack of self-esteem and disaffection amongst young men in marginalised Limerick communities.