'I will end you': The dangers of selling sex in Ireland 

Barbara Babeurre says she felt safest working in Germany, where both selling and buying sex are legal, regulated and taxed.

“You don’t know who I am in Limerick. I will end you,” the man spat down angrily into Barbara Babeurre’s face as she attempted to push him out the door, trying not to inhale the stench of his armpits.

Seconds earlier her friend, a fellow sex worker, had run from her room and pleaded for help after the client went berserk, shouting and throwing anything he could grab at her after she asked him to shower properly before sex.