A Wicklow woman told a jury at the Dublin Central Criminal Court that she was forced to put a condom on a man before he raped her. The 31-year-old accused, an acquaintance of the woman's boyfriend, denies raping her and says they had consensual sex.
The woman told Mr Kenneth Mills SC, prosecuting, that she met the accused man for the first time earlier that day while with her boyfriend in a pub. They had some drinks there and then moved to another pub where they were joined by another couple.
She said the accused man invited them all to his house but she was the only one to accept.
The accused made them both coffee. They smoked a joint of cannabis and she went up to a child's bedroom to rest. She claimed that shortly afterwards he followed her to the bedroom. He put a duvet over her and asked her if he could join her.
She refused and attempted to get up, but he pushed her back. She told him to get away from her and lashed out at him, scratching his face. He pinned her down on the bed and sexually assaulted her.
Then he walked out of the room, ordering her not to move. He returned with a packet of condoms and told her to put one on him saying, "or I will do without it".
She told the jury she did as he told her and he started having intercourse with her. Afterwards he handed her his mobile phone and told her to call the gardai if she wanted to, but then walked out of the room with the phone.
Mr Raymond Comyn SC, defending, asked her why she did not leave the house before he returned with the condoms. "I was frozen with fright," she said.
She denied Mr Comyn's suggestion that her behaviour gave the accused the impression that she wanted to have sex with him. She said she was aware he had children and assumed that it would be safe to go to his place.
The accused man's partner said she had been at their child's First Communion on the day of the incident. When she came back home he was asleep in the sitting room. She asked him about the scratch on his face and he told her that he had fallen into the rose bushes in the front garden.
She found a condom in the house a few days later and confronted him again. He later told her that he had sex with the alleged victim in the house but that it had been consensual.
The hearing continues before Mr Justice Carney.