Alleged rape victim 'forced herself on me', says accused

A Limerick man accused of raping and sexually assaulting a woman as she walked home alone told gardaí she had kept "forcing herself on me" in a local disco earlier that Halloween Night.

The 21-year-old man has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping and sexually assaulting the woman on October 31, 2005 in a Co Limerick town.