Victim claims accused sent text saying 'I raped you'

A north Dublin woman has claimed at the Central Criminal Court that a man she alleges was having sex with her when she woke up later sent her a mobile phone text message saying: "I raped you, ha ha."

The woman also told prosecuting counsel, Ms Aileen Donelly SC (with Ms Roisin Lacey BL), that she had been intimate "once in 2004" with the accused whom she said was a friend of hers for some years.