Sitting only feet away from Guinness and Heineken taps and under switched-off disco lights, the 41-year-old niece of billionaire fashion icon Ralph Lauren, who is accused of being drunk on board a transatlantic flight, was brought to a pub in the west of Ireland to learn her fate.

The niece of fashion designer Ralph Lauren has appeared in court charged with being drunk and abusive on a plane over an alleged air rage incident.

The neice of designer Ralph Lauren will appear in court in Co Clare this morning charged in connection with an air-rage incident on board a flight bound for JFK New York yesterday.

A niece of fashion icon Ralph Lauren will appear in Killaloe court today charged in relation to an alleged air rage incident after a flight from Barcelona to New York was diverted to Shannon.