Filipino and Thai women with no other options out of their poverty

Filipino and Thai women with no other options out of their poverty stricken world, sell themselves as mail order brides to Western men.

Laura Barry investigates why Ireland is experiencing a growth in so-called mail order brides arriving on it’s shores. Traveling to Thailand and the Philippines, she meets the women at the heart of the story, their new husbands and the men profiting from these often very unhappy marriages and asks the question, are mail order brides simply trafficked women who are being exploited by legal loopholes in UK law?