Judge gives prostitutes €1,200 to leave Ireland

A judge has given four prostitutes €1,200 from seized money to leave Ireland and return to Romania.

They were among six people who appeared in court yesterday charged in connection with a prostitution ring in Co Donegal. Five women and one man appeared at Letterkenny District Court after gardaí smashed a sex ring operating at three different apartments in the same building.

The accused are all from Romania. All were charged with either managing, assisting, or acting in the running of a brothel for the purpose of habitual prostitution.