Man returned for rape trial

An Englishman charged with raping a woman in Galway city last June has been returned for trial to the Central Criminal Court …

An Englishman charged with raping a woman in Galway city last June has been returned for trial to the Central Criminal Court in Dublin. The man, who is in his late 30s and of no fixed abode, gave three different names and two different ages to gardai after being arrested in Galway four days after the alleged offence.

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