Joan Collins’ barrister has applied for the case against the Independent TD to be dismissed.

She, along with nine others, is accused of failing to comply with a Garda direction to leave the scene of a water charge protest in Dublin last April.

Her legal team has raised issues about her summons and claims there is no evidence she was part of the group to which the order was made.

Yesterday, Councillor Patrick Dunne of St. Gerard’s Road, Greenhills in Dublin was cleared of the same public order offence.