A CO Kildare couple should be due more than £50,000 in EU cereals subsidy this month, the High Court was told yesterday. Mrs Justice McGuinness heard that John and Carmel Killeen of Carbury, owed the National Irish Bank £128,000, for which it had obtained judgment.
She granted the bank an order appointing one of its deputy bank managers, Mr James Creamer, receiver by way of equitable execution over the EU funds which the Killeens are expecting to receive.
Mrs Justice McGuinness told Mr Alex Owens, counsel for the bank, that its solicitors could inform the Department of Agriculture by phone and fax of her order.
Mr Owens said judgments' for £78,000 against Mr Killeen and for £50,000 against Mrs Killeen, with costs in both cases, had been obtained by the bank. He said the monies had been outstanding for a number of years to the bank's Mullingar branch.
He said Mr Killeen engaged in farming on a conacre basis and had about 500 acres cereals and linseed, for which he was due upwards of £50,000 in subsidy.