So the plan is to end gender based violence by continuing to raid and evict sex workers rather than addressing the reasons people enter sex work in the first place: poverty and inequality.
Got it.

Using Magdalene research to justify these harms adds insult to injury. https://t.co/iFQXdNdiEf

— Adeline Berry 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 (@adeline_whitney) June 28, 2022

Sex workers views and agency consistently excluded, dismissed and undermined in policy making in Ireland. The pursuit of end demand policy + carceral responses to sex work will cause untold pain + suffering. This is a choice you're making. @DeptJusticeIRL

— ☕🧶📚🖍️🌎 (@DervR) June 28, 2022

These talking points are the same that have been fed to politicians since the late 2000s by abolitionist organisations. There is nothing progressive about a Justice Minister prepared to throw people who do sex work under the bus.

— ☕🧶📚🖍️🌎 (@DervR) June 29, 2022

Increased garda intrusion into the lives of sex workers under the new Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence strategy will inevitably mean more garda abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people. Need to work on strategies to try to protect our community.

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) June 29, 2022

New research from Australia 👇 It seems wherever police have power over sex workers, there is a police culture of abuse and exploitation. https://t.co/CbCF5FHHM9

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) June 29, 2022

Welcome to Ireland where through clever use of FOI by @kenfoxe we can learn about a mouse in Garda HQ today, but the restrictions on FOI mean we can never really ask almost all the important questions https://t.co/I5Z5P1Z4vo

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) June 30, 2022

Even by NMN standards this is flabbergasting. An article written by an Hungarian man that doesn’t mention that Hungary is a fascist state. (Which is looking at the Nordic Model) https://t.co/im30DLXKCa pic.twitter.com/fvmugan0q4

— Em (@grumpyhooker) July 4, 2022

Oh and the current Hungarian government blocked the ratification of the Istanbul treaty due to it “promoting gender ideology”’https://t.co/Gwlmw9xlX3

— Em (@grumpyhooker) July 4, 2022

1. Who is "they"
2. What did "they" take that you had previously owned
3. Who is "us" pic.twitter.com/Unvmpbo20M

— Gillian Branstetter (@GBBranstetter) July 6, 2022

wow congratulations @BristolSWC, you mobilised an amazing community response 🎉 (86% of respondents say no to shutting all Bristol’s strip clubs) https://t.co/08bIDW0b6X

— molly smith (@pastachips) July 8, 2022

The Irish Sex Work Research Network is heartbroken to hear of the death of Vicky Conway, a passionate supporter of the decriminalisation of sex work, and a dedicated proponent of social justice for all. She & @sineadring organised this powerful submission: https://t.co/mPlhtPr4mF

— Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN) (@ISWRN1) July 20, 2022

Vicky’s death is not just a devastating loss to all who loved and knew her, but also for Irish justice. She was a rare, brave and good soul that dared to speak truth to power, calling out injustice in Ireland.
1/ https://t.co/rhK7eHQzxH

— Adeline Berry 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 (@adeline_whitney) July 20, 2022

Vicky was the foremost voice on human rights and policing in Ireland. The Vicky shaped void she has left in policing, especially police reform, is immense. #RestInPowerVicky

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) July 20, 2022

As President of Ireland, may I offer my deepest condolences to the family, friends & colleagues of Dr. Vicky Conway. She will be remembered for her work as a brilliant academic and as a passionate campaigner for social justice. Suaimhneas síoraí dá hanam.

— President of Ireland (@PresidentIRL) July 20, 2022

We are devastated, heartbroken, shocked and in mourning for our dear friend, Dr Vicky Conway. Love and miss you, pal. #RestInPowerVicky pic.twitter.com/TXe1mlex7N

— Tony - Pod Guy - Groves (@Trickstersworld) July 20, 2022

Have you listened to the @PolicedPodcast podcast featuring Lucy Smyth of @UglyMugsPublic? She has brought information to the Gardaí about people intimidating and attacking sex workers by impersonating Gardaí, which they have ignored. https://t.co/93BNBYsZ78

— Sex Workers Alliance Ireland (SWAI) (@SWAIIreland) July 11, 2022

Happy trans and intersex pride Dublin! #TransRightsAreHumanRights

— vicky conway (@drvconway) July 16, 2022

But what about when the victim is a sex worker?https://t.co/9roZA5iRzS

Sex workers including myself have been trying for years to get help after being abused by gardaí.

In response, govt ignores SWers and increases garda power to cause devastation to our most marginalised. https://t.co/ZPQeQrOb7a

— Adeline Berry 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 (@adeline_whitney) July 27, 2022

Very brave woman who bought this case. Being stalked by a garda is something many sex workers we know have experienced and it is an extremally difficult situation to be in. https://t.co/L1Om3Z64D4

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) July 25, 2022

What's outstanding here is that there is a prosecution. Many women have experienced similarly awful abuse from many different members of Gardai. But in the past, if you went to the Gardai and asked for help with an abusive garda, you were just told NO https://t.co/36rf9aJy7O

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) July 26, 2022

It's good if things are changing enough that a prosecution like this can go ahead. But what happened here isn't unusual. It's like the usual Garda abuse playbook he deployed against this woman. There are so many other guards, just like him.

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) July 26, 2022

If you genuinely care about people in sex work, please engage with all the issues here. Just stopping by to monster one abuser in the popular press isn't helping address any of the fundamental struggles our community faces.

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) July 24, 2022

Only engaging with sex work and sex trafficking for the purposes of condemning one abuser does nothing to help our community. Don't be like a tourist quickly popping by just to look at something you find ghastly, then run off. Come and see what we really need.

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) July 24, 2022

Judge Helen Boyle leads tributes to ‘shining star’, Dr Vicky Conway, at Cork Circuit Court https://t.co/s7lKhcD6TD

— Donncha O'Connell (@DonnchaLaw) July 26, 2022

Paywall lifted on entire back catalogue of @PolicedPodcast. The best policing podcast in the world (I've been saying this since it first launched). Do listen and if you can support @TortoiseShack https://t.co/VbehLwQiq2

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) July 23, 2022

The big man leading the little woman on chain image used here is unfortunately reflective of just how awful the popular trafficking discourse is in Ireland 🤦

— UglyMugs.ie Public (@UglyMugsPublic) July 30, 2022