International student planning to study in Munster university offered sex-for-rent arrangement

Technological University Shannon students' union said close to 10 such incidents had come on its radar in the current academic year

TUI students' union is now warning students at inductions about the risk of being targeted with sex-for-rent offers.

A Brazilian woman planning to study in Ireland in the next academic year has been offered a sex-for-rent arrangement when responding to what appeared to be a typical rental advertisement.

The woman is planning to study at Technological University Shannon in the autumn and had replied to an advertisement on the students union’s accommodation website when the offer was made to her within the past three weeks.