Four men have gone on trial charged with the rape and sexual assault of a 19-year-old woman in her home five years ago.
The Central Criminal Court heard the woman will give evidence to say she had invited one of the men to her home but he arrived with three others, and she was was forced to have sex and oral sex against her will.
Opening the case for the prosecution, Senior Counsel Anne Rowland told the jury the complainant in the case was 19 years old in December 2018.
The rest of her family were out on the night and she did not want to be alone in the house. She had invited a friend to stay but he could not. She then invited one of the accused men who she knew through college friends and who had been in her house a number of times.
Ms Rowland said the jury would hear evidence that the first accused was driving his mother's car that night and collected the three other men from a Dublin shopping centre before driving to the woman's house in a neighbouring county, arriving just after 11pm.
Ms Rowland said the woman will say she was not expecting four people. They had some drinks downstairs in the house before going up to her bedroom as it was cold downstairs, the jury was told.
Ms Rowland said the woman went to the bathroom and was not feeling well after drinking. When she returned to the bedroom one of the men allegedly pulled down her trousers and began slapping her and the others joined in. The woman will say in evidence it was sore and she asked them to stop.
It is alleged that two men left the room and two remained. The woman will say she was forced to have oral sex with one and sex with another. The woman will say she went to the bathroom and was then pulled into another bedroom where she was raped.
She will also say that at some stage she was in the bathroom again and was pulled back into the bedroom and was orally raped by one of the men who then left. One man remained in the bedroom where he allegedly locked the door and had sex with her.
The jury was told the men left the house about an hour and a half after they arrived.
The woman contacted a friend who came to her house and he then contacted the gardaí.
The woman was taken to a sexual assault treatment unit. DNA matching the profiles of three of the four accused was found either on swabs taken from the complainant or on bed sheets from her room.
During a Garda investigation the first accused man initially told gardaí he was driving his father's car that night and that while he knew the complainant, and she was always contacting him on Snapchat and asking him to come down to her house, he did not.
Gardaí recovered CCTV from the shopping centre and saw the accused had been driving a different car, belonging to his mother, and the car was observed picking up three other men and driving to the complainant's home.
In a second interview he said he had been to her house and that she had performed oral sex on him and it was consensual and she had not been forced to do it.
The second accused told gardaí he had been at the house and the complainant had given him oral sex voluntarily. He said they had smoked a joint in the car on the way to the house.
The third accused told gardaí he had been invited to a house party and that the woman had given him oral sex voluntarily.
The fourth accused, in his first interview with gardaí said he had never been there and did not know the woman and was adamant he had not been there. However, in a subsequent interview the following May after he was told DNA had been found he said he had consensual sex using a condom given to him by the complainant.
The first accused, who is now aged 25, is charged with oral rape of the woman on a date in December 2018. The second accused, 25, is charged with one count of rape.
The third accused, aged 23, is charged with oral rape and two counts of rape. The fourth accused, aged 24, is charged with rape.
All four are also charged with sexual assault. All four deny all the charges.
The trial before Mr Justice David Keane is expected to last four weeks.
