Former property developer Kevin McGeever will stand trial on charges of wasting garda time next February.

The 70-year-old was in Galway Circuit Criminal Court this afternoon when the trial was listed for hearing.

Mr McGeever, formerly of Craughwell in Co Galway, and more recently with an address in Clontarf in Dublin, was charged last year with giving false information and wasting garda time.

An investigation was launched when he was found wandering in a dishevelled state on a road in Co Leitrim in January 2013.

He had been reported missing the previous May.

The court was told today that the case is expected to take three days to complete.

The trial has already been put back on a number of occasions.

Most recently it was delayed when Mr McGeever was admitted to hospital suffering from high blood pressure in November.

Mr McGeever did not speak during the brief hearing.