ANNA'S STORY:Anna's journey to Ireland began on the internet. An Asian woman in her mid-30s, she hadn't done any telesales work before, but the job - Dublin-based, with a good wage - made no mention of experience.
She applied straight away and, to her delight, got a quick reply. The job was hers. When could she travel?
Anna arrived at Dublin airport on a Friday night and was met by Eric, the company's owner, with his partner and their two children.
That night, as they drove to the family home outside the city in their four-by-four, Anna was struck above all by their extravagant wealth; never before had she seen someone open a gate by extending an arm out the car window and pressing a remote control.
The next morning, Eric told Anna the telesales position wasn't yet ready to be taken up - the office was being refurbished, he said, but Anna could work around the house until the office was ready.
For three months Anna didn't get to leave the house. She had to start work at 6.30am each day, spending her day looking after the younger child and tending to a long list of household chores.
Later she was allowed spend a few hours in Dublin on Saturdays, although she was usually chaperoned and knew nobody in the city.
So it continued for a year, until her work permit (for a job that never existed, she had come to realise) was due for renewal. One night around this time, Anna was cleaning a toilet in the basement of the house when Eric came downstairs to see her.
She pleaded with him to do something about the work permit. As they spoke, he began stroking her breasts. She was struck with terror and told him to stop - if he didn't, she would tell his partner.
He replied: "If you tell her, you won't get any permit."
He had friends everywhere, he told her, and he could have her deported in a blink.
After that night, Anna was raped repeatedly. It continued for weeks. First she would put up a struggle, but later she stopped, telling herself that the less she resisted the quicker it would end.
When she began to lock her door at night, the woman of the house chastised her. What if the children were looking for her during the night?
Resolving to escape, Anna approached a compatriot on the street in Dublin and, through her, was put in touch with a community worker in the city.
With help, she fled the house on a Wednesday afternoon when the family were out.
Eric continued to send Anna abusive texts for weeks after she left, first threatening to have her found and deported, then asking her if she knew any other woman who was looking for a job as a domestic worker.
Eric owns a technology company in Dublin and has never come to the attention of gardaí.
Anna has found a good job in the city and is working there still. At her insistence, neither the Garda nor any support groups have been made aware of her case.
LEVA'S STORY
Leva, a Lithuanian woman in her mid-20s, came to Ireland a year and a half ago. In her home town she had known lots of women who had gone to Ireland and made good money in bars and restaurants, so when Varnas, a male friend, returned home and offered to set her up with a hotel job in the midlands, she leapt at the chance.
She was in Ireland a few days when Varnas brought her to Dublin one night to see two men she didn't know. She couldn't follow the conversation, but Leva felt uneasy the minute they were introduced. "I was like a cow they were going to buy," she says.
On the drive back to the midlands town that night, she confronted Varnas about what was going on.
With one hand on the wheel, he turned and slapped her with the back of the other. He told her she was going to work as a prostitute.
Within days, Leva was put to "work" in a small apartment in the town. There, she would be forced to have sex "with more [ men] than my fingers in a week". Some were Irish, some were from abroad. She was given enough money to feed herself each week, but no more.
Did she ever try to run away?
"Run where?" She had little English and knew nobody except her trafficker.
Leva's ordeal came to an end thanks to the actions of a 21-year-old local man, who was approached one evening in a pub and told that there was a prostitute up the road for him if he was interested. When he arrived at the apartment, he could see that he was facing a terrified girl, upset and confused.
Through friends, and without giving his name, he phoned Anton McCabe, president of Siptu's Meath branch and a well-known contact among migrant communities, who then got in touch with the girl without the trafficker's knowledge.
"I need to escape, I need to escape," she told McCabe when they first met.
McCabe took Leva out of the town and introduced her to another Lithuanian who had offered to help her. She was adamant that gardaí were not to be involved.
"She was fearful of everything," says McCabe. "She thought I might be involved with immigration, even when I told her she couldn't be deported anywhere because she was an EU citizen."
Leva now lives and works in the south of the country.