A major Garda operation into the sex trade in Dublin discovered that some women had turned to prostitution to fund their children's communuions.
According to this mornings Irish Daily Mail, some mothers admitted to selling sex to raise up to 1thousand euros for communion celebrations.
Undercover female Gardai posed as prostitutes in a crackdown on kerb crawlers in a residential part of the city - the sting resulted in more than 100 convictions.