A healthcare assistant, Muna Mohamed Sharif, has been accused in Dublin District Court of using a 'lookalike' document to smuggle an asylum seeker through Dublin Airport for a fee.

Two men have been before Dublin District Court charged with a serious assault on a man in Temple Bar in the early hours of Wednesday morning last week.

Dublin District Court heard he followed the victim into her hotel lift, while holding a belt and staring at her, then into the corridor near her room.

Tatjana Talockina, a Latvian national with an address at Foster Terrace, Ballybough, appeared at Dublin District Court