Cattle dealer facing 'sell a cow or go to jail' ultimatum pays €5k in €50 notes for child maintenance

Judge Larkin said that after the €5,000 has been paid over, the cattle dealer owes a further €1,600 in maintenance arrears

The cattle dealer has fallen into arrears on his child maintenance payments of €100 a week as he can’t afford the payments due to a lot of cattle dealing now going online due to Covid-19. File photo

A cattle dealer served with a child maintenance arrears ultimatum by a judge of “sell a cow or go to jail”, has handed €5,000 in €50 notes into court. 

At the Family Law Court, the cattle dealer told Judge Mary Larkin that a man he buys cattle for phoned him to help out on his child maintenance arrears debt. Judge Larkin had issued the ultimatum on the cattle dealer last month.