Man tells court he only denied abuse to get home

A man on trial for falsely claiming a priest buggered him has repeated the allegation in direct evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court and claimed he only told gardaí this wasn't true so as to get home.

He outlined what he says happened on seven alleged successive visits to the priest's house when he was six years old, including anal rape and attempted oral rape when he claimed he told the priest he would bite his penis off if he put it into his mouth.