The event focused on labour trafficking and featured three speakers, from An Garda Síochána, the Workplace Relations Commission, and Mecpaths.

“Human trafficking is big, big business, and it’s in every village, in every town, every townland. It’s in your face,” detective chief superintendent Colm Noonan said.

A Cork hotel worker contacted MECPATHS with suspicions about a guest who it later turned out had managed to traffic a child to Ireland.

NO city, town or village in Ireland is immune to human trafficking – that’s the message from activist group Cork Against Human Trafficking (CAHT) this World Day against Trafficking in Persons.