Landlord told to surrender his passport

Landlord John Meagher has agreed to surrender his passport and take steps to address his contempt of orders requiring him disclose his assets to a bank pursuing him for almost €7m.

Mr Meagher, whose arrest was ordered last month by Mr Justice Peter Kelly of the Commercial Court, appeared voluntarily before the judge yesterday. He said he had been in India and Sri Lanka and was unaware of the court proceedings until a friend rang him in India to say he was “all over the papers”.

While he apologised to the court and appreciated it took the matter serio-usly, he regarded it as “a business matter” and did not understand the attitude adopted by Danske Bank, towards him.