Actor pleads not guilty to charge of assaulting woman in Dublin flat

Actor David Murray, who plays the late finance minister Brian Lenihan in a new film, has pleaded not guilty to attacking a woman in Dublin.

The 44-year-old stars in The Guarantee, a dramatisation of the events leading to the infamous night in September 2008 when a decision was made that taxpayers would bail out toxic financial institutions at a cost of billions.

It is showing in selected cinemas until Christmas.