Rachel Moran

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The new reality of prostitution has to be addressed by a change in the law

In her insightful and harrowing book, Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, Rachel Moran points out that the 1993 Sexual Offences Act criminalise(...)

Cherie Jimenez, Justine Reilly and Rachel Moran outside the Volunteering Centre on O’Connell St, Dublin, at the launch yesterday of lobby group Space International (Survivors of Prostitution-Abuse Calling for Enlightenment). Photograph: Julien Behal/PA Wire
Former prostitutes ‘offended’ by Clare Daly stance on sex industry

A number of survivors of prostitution are particularly “aggrieved and offended” at the decision by Clare Daly TD not to support their campaign for the(...)

Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution, by Rachel Moran
  • Books
  • May 11, 2013, 07:00

Rachel Moran’s extraordinary book lays bare the seven years she spent as a prostitute. It took her more than a decade to write, looking back wi(...)

Escort: Rachel says she has clients around Ireland. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
The sex trade: safe or sordid?

‘I had a good job as the administrator of a detox unit, and then everything started falling apart around me,” says Mia de Faoite. “I started sm(...)

Let the right one in: some prostitutes go ‘on tour’ around Ireland. Photograph: Thinkstock
Men and escorts: ‘I think I could tell if they didn’t like it’

‘I used to be under the illusion that I was a nice respectful john. Today I am tortured by my memories,” says David, a successful Dublin busine(...)

Protesters outside Leinster House called for a reversal of a move to increase the pupil to teacher ratio introduced in last December’s Budget. Photograph: Éanna Ó Caollaí/The Irish Times
Protest calls for reversal of student-teacher ratio increase
  • News
  • April 26, 2013, 06:00

Government plans to increase the student to teacher ratio in the further education sector will result in the loss of up to 100 teachers in Dubl(...)

Author, journalist and former prostitute Rachel Moran. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien
The myth of the happy hooker
  • People
  • April 13, 2013, 06:00

The first man to take Rachel Moran into his car for £10 hand relief in 1987 didn’t care that the 15-year- old was homeless after being thrown o(...)

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