A man has appeared in court accused of assaulting and falsely imprisoning a woman by tying her up in a remote laneway using duct tape.
Maurice Fitzgerald, 29, of Abbeyview Buttevant, Co Cork appeared before a late sitting of Dublin’s Central Criminal Court this evening.
In total he is accused of four counts of false imprisonment, assault and possession of a claw hammer and duct tape on Meeting House Lane in Dublin on Saturday.