Ex-husband tried to kill me, woman tells court

The ex-wife of a 39-year-old Dublin man accused of her attempted murder today told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that on March 29, 2000, her ex-husband was "trying to kill me".

David McDaid of Sillogue Avenue, Ballymun, Dublin, denies attempting to murder Mrs Dymphna McDaid, aged 35, at a horse-riding school at Surgalstown, Swords, Co Dublin on March 29, 2000.