Ruling on injunction in Cork cattle auction case due today

The High Court will rule today whether to extend an injunction preventing any disruption of an auction of cattle belonging to a family of dairy farmers who were previous winners of RTÉ's Ireland's Fittest Family programme.

Cork County Sheriff Sinead McNamara last week secured an order preventing disruption of an auction of 1,000 cows and calves belonging to Peter and Tracey Kingston of Craden Hill Farm, Nohoval, Kinsale, amid fears protesters intended to disrupt the sale.

The injunction restrained members of the Land League and New Land League, their spokesman Jerry Beades, and any other party with notice of the order interfering with the auction.

The auction proceeded on April 12th and the cattle were sold. It later emerged two parties who bid on some animals failed to pay for them and these animals may have to be resold.