Cattle sale injunction may be extended

The High Court will decide today if it is to extend an injunction preventing anyone disrupting an auction of cattle belonging to a Cork family of dairy farmers who were winners of Ireland’s Fittest Family programme on RTÉ.

The Cork County Sheriff, solicitor Sinéad McNamara, last week secured an order preventing the disruption of an auction of 1,000 cows and calves belonging to Peter and Tracey Kingston from Craden Hill Farm at Novohal in Kinsale, because of fears that protesters intended to prevent and disrupt the sale of the herd.

The injunction was granted against members of the Land league and New Land League, their spokesman Jerry Beades, and any other party with notice of the order, restraining them from interfering with the auction.