A bank has given a Co Longford farmer and builder, and his wife, an undertaking that it will not put their lands and a dwelling house up for auction until further order of the High Court.

Barrister Diarmaid Padraig Murphy told Mr Justice Garrett Simons on Tuesday that the urgency that had brought injunction proceedings by the couple into the vacation emergency list earlier this month had now gone out of the matter which could be adjourned into early October.

Philip and Sinead Rogers of Mill Road, Drumlish, had obtained an interim injunction restraining Everyday Finance from selling several folios of farmland totaling about 70ac by public auction on dates in July and August which were blocked by the court.

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Philip Rogers’s building company, Terracotta Construction Limited, had also challenged the appointment by Everyday Finance of Ballybrit, Galway, of receiver Luke Charleton, of Ernst & Young Chartered Accounts, over lands and three dwelling houses in Mill Race Park, Derawley, Drumlish.

Mr Murphy told the court that Everyday and its receiver had undertaken not to market the property before the next listing of both cases when the undertaking could, if necessary, be extended.

Declaration

Mr and Mrs Rogers are seeking a declaration that Everyday’s appointment of the receiver over the farmlands and dwellings is void and of no effect together with orders directing Everyday and the receiver to yield up possession of the lands and pay all rentals from the properties to them.

Rogers told the court in written evidence he was the registered owner of the lands involved in the proceedings at Derawley, Barraghbeg and Barragh Mor and Corrabaun, Drumlish, while he and his wife were the registered owners of two acres and three houses at Mill Race Park, Drumlish, and two houses at Mill Oaks, Drumlish.

The farmlands had been advertised for sale by live virtual online and public auction by Wilsons Auctions this Wednesday (27 August 2025) at 4pm, but the auction is now restrained by court order and by the undertaking given in court on Tuesday by the defendants Everyday and the receiver.