A 23-year-old woman has denied she had sex several times with her former lover in the months following an alleged rape.
The jury at the Central Criminal Court also heard the woman read out love letters she wrote from early 1996 to 1997 to the accused during their two-year relationship.
The north Co Dublin woman denied meeting the accused regularly in the months following the alleged rape.
She told Mr Brendan Grogan SC, defending, she would be surprised if a lifelong girlfriend gave evidence of seeing her meet him at another friend's flat three times. She also denied she tried to prevent this woman from giving evidence.
She told Mr Grogan she met the accused only once after the alleged rape. That was some weeks later at about 3 a.m. when she was with two girls in a car driven by a mutual male friend and she saw the accused walking on the road. She confronted him because she wanted an apology.
It was the second day of the trial of a 21-year-old Co Meath man who denies raping and sexually assaulting the woman on September 7th, 1997.
Sgt Joseph Kelly told Mr Patrick McCarthy SC, prosecuting, the accused related how he had left a girl home from a disco after they had sex. He saw the alleged victim's bedroom light on and decided to contact her. She appeared at the front of her house and they started talking. Sgt Kelly said the accused claimed they then began "shifting" each other. They had sexual intercourse for some 20-30 minutes before she asked him to stop. They then had an argument after she said that the reason for stopping had nothing to do with a named person.
The accused said she then became angry. He put his hand over her mouth momentarily to stop her creating a scene and told her he was not going to hurt her.
The case continues.