The defence in the assisted suicide trial of Dublin woman Gail O'Rorke says the jury is being asked to criminalise the making of travel arrangements.

Earlier the judge directed the jury to strike out two of the charges against her.

However Ms O'Rorke (43) of Kilclare Gardens, Tallaght remains accused of attempting to help her friend Bernadette Forde take her own life, by making travel arrangements to Dignitas in Switzerland between March and April 2011.

The jury is now hearing closing speeches in the trial.

The evidence has been that she was a friend and carer to Ms Forde (51) who had multiple sclerosis and was in a wheelchair.

In June 2011 Ms Forde, a former HR manager, took a lethal dose of barbiturates bought online from Mexico.

There was evidence that two months earlier Ms O'Rorke had been booked to travel to assisted suicide clinic Dignitas with her.

The jury heard the trip was thwarted when the travel agent contacted gardaí.

Ms O'Rorke told gardaí at the time that she did not know that what she was doing was illegal.

In his final address, prosecution barrister Remy Farrell told the jury that ignorance of the law was never a defence.

Our Courts Correspondent Francesca Comyn reports: