Librarian charged in air rage outburst

A 32-YEAR-OLD Austrian librarian is due to appear in court today charged in connection with three alleged air-rage offences that forced a flight to divert to Shannon airport on Saturday.

A court in Clare heard Harold Albrecht, a professional librarian, had been returning from a five-week internship in the US, where he had been studying the Holocaust.

At a special sitting of Ennis District Court on Saturday, Albrecht secured bail in the case to reappear before the court today.