Prostitutes advertise with leaflets on streets

Prostitutes have been blatantly handing out leaflets selling their services in a seaside resort.

They don’t even have a brothel or home of their own to accommodate their customers.

They were offering their services in clients’ own homes or in their cars.

Three women walked the streets of Bundoran, Co Donegal, on Monday, handing out misspelled leaflets offering full body massages. They stopped men outside shops at lunchtime and handed them copies of the flier with a mobile phone number.

One man, who refused to be named, said the girl who handed him the leaflet said: “Call me if you want a good time.” He said when he phoned from a kiosk “for the craic” a girl told him the fee would be €150 for “whatever I want”.

Gardaí were told that townsfolk said the women, who were foreign and probably from eastern Europe, were followed at a discreet distance by three squat and heavyset men who were suspected of being pimps.

Calls yesterday to the number were answered by a woman who spoke in broken English and offered full body massage for €200. She didn’t elaborate on what exact services she was offering. She agreed under negotiation to do it for €150, but when pressed to say where and when all she could say, although it was pouring rain, was “on the beach”.

Garda Inspector Denis Joyce in Ballyshannon said they were aware of Monday’s incident and the movements of the women and the men with them was still under investigation.