A woman told a jury she woke up on a sofa to find she was being raped by a man who had been allowed live in her flat for some months because he was homeless.
She said the rape happened while her boyfriend, her daughter and her sister, who had visited the flat, were out.
The jury heard there was no forensic evidence to link the accused with the woman. He had voluntarily given samples so that DNA analysis could be done.
The accused has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping the woman on November 17th, 1997, in Dublin.
The woman told Mr Kenneth Mills SC, prosecuting (with Ms Pauline Whalley), she had known the accused for some years.
She, her sister and the accused had consumed a lot of drink on the day of the alleged rape, having begun drinking about 11 a.m. She said the accused left her sister to the bus-stop. The next thing she knew was waking up to find the accused on top of her having sex. She had not heard him come in as he had a key.
She said she threw him off her and called him "dirty names". He just smiled. She began crying. She told her daughter and then her boyfriend when they returned, and her boyfriend ordered the accused out of the flat.
The alleged victim told a doctor at the Rotunda Hospital and then gardai what had happened. Cross-examined by Mr Martin Giblin SC, defending (with Mr Sean Deegan), she denied she had a drink problem.
She said she was not drunk that night although she agreed she drank a lot during the day. Pressed by Mr Giblin, she said she could not deny she told gardai she heard the accused return to the flat. She denied she let the accused back in and said she did not tell gardai that the accused did not have a key.
When the alleged victim replied several times to Mr Giblin that she was in shock the next day, Mr Giblin noted she had not been diagnosed by the doctor as being in shock and the doctor had recorded that the alleged victim made contradictory statements about the matter.
She said that "maybe" she told gardai she had returned to the sofa after letting the accused back in, but if she did, she fell asleep and woke to find him raping her.
The hearing continues before Ms Justice Catherine McGuinness.