Irish women could turn to prostitution for income

MORE foreign women are being trafficked here to work in the sex trade amid growing fears that Irish women are also turning to prostitution because of the recession.

The biennial report by Ruhama, which campaigns for women working in prostitution, said it dealt with 341 clients in 2007 and 2008, 100 of whom were brought into the country from overseas.

Six women trafficked here were aged under 18 and some of those trafficked into the country were as young as 15.