‘Slavery exists in Ireland today’ - construction and sex workers trafficked to Australia

Sex slavery in Australia has been around for decades. I worked on the giant Snowy River project 50 years ago when traffickers were bringing enslaved sex slaves in campers to offer us, workers for a fee

The Gardai are their usual efficient selves. Today's Irish Times ran a story about brothels. The Gardai raided 120 (One Hundred and Twenty) brothels yesterday and arrested 3 (Three) people. That's some catch!

Aleksey, Aus has an excellent reputation as being very fair to employees. I have mates who had that visa as I did myself. I decided to come home and continue my studies but they stayed on. A couple of them had issues with not getting enough hours but they werent trafficked or treated badly. They went to immigration who told them if they could get another job offer they could transfer their visa over to the new employer if the employer ok'd this which is something my bro had to do in NZ. he got his residency last week. While Im gutted for selfish reasons (I miss the bones of him!), Im delighted for him and his English girlfriend.

@ciaradexy the article might be exaggerating a bit, but workers on 457 type visas might indeed have condition 8107 on their visa which states that visa holder must not work for another employer. It could be tricky to find another employer who would be willing to be a visa sponsor etc so in such situations workers are somewhat dependant on their original employer/sponsor.

@ciaradexy, human-trafficking has been a problem all over the world for probably 20 years or so. I'm saying Ireland's got the chance to nip it in the bud. Children and women have been forced into servitude (virtual slavery) and sexual slavery from countries like Thailand, India, and European countries as well.

This article also has a load of different stories in it. So irish people are being trafficked and exploited in Australia,Filipinos are being exploited in Aus, people are being trafficked and exploited in ireland by irish people or we are keeping slaves. Which is it?

Seriously, who writes this cr@p?? For an Irish person to get an Australian migrant visa, they have to go through a very stringent set of application procedures. They must have skills and qualifications, experience plus may also have to do an exam to assess their skill set. So when they get the migrant visa, they are not tied to any specific employer which means THEY CANNOT BE EXPLOITED!!! And certain not trafficked! What is wrong with you people? Seriously? is it such a slow news day in the countries you are actually from that you feel the need to make this stuff up about MY country and then the gullible idiots on here actually believe it?

The law needs to lower the boom on slavery of any kind. They should get busy making new laws that will take the profit out of these misadventures, as well as, enforce existing laws to their fullest extent. Save the good part of society that you have left. Don't let things continue to spiral out of control.

Despicable! Reprehensible! Human traffickers should be shot, both the pimps & the slave drivers! Remember the movie, "Cool Hand Luke"? Paul Newman, as Luke, was imprisoned in a southern state, for ripping off parking meters. He was placed in a slave labor camp. At the end of the movie, following an escape, he decides that death would be preferable to going back. So, when they come for him, in a church, he mimics the warden, "What we have here is a failure to communicate"!! He is shot for this sarcastic outburst, and soon dies. George Kennedy, playing a fellow inmate, praises Luke in the end, saying that he wouldn't let them beat him. He chose death over slavery.

Slavery? Brought in my the American companies. Also american companies employ just under 100,000 people in ireland. Irish companies employ a similar amount in the states.

@Murph46: The figures are much higher for pretentious American Corporations who get way too much from traitorous Irish Politicians who are keeping the Irish in servitude as a ready made work force...........What you need to do is watch while retarded Irish Politicians lose the money and the ability to finance your corporations.........Things will change........What is coming your way???????????

@bunkerhill - The article doesn't say that the criminals were Irish just their victims!

Re-read the article, Irish men and women were fraudulently recruited to work in Australia where they were enslaved. Irish workers were exploited.

Are there no depths to which "some" Irish will sink to demean themselves? There seriously has to be some scientific study to see why these people are so self deprecating as they are not representative of the Irish as a whole, but they do pull everyone else down.

Gee Loyal C...... Slavery in Ireland ,not by those mean old American Corporations!