Vote-rigging allegations to be handed to DPP

GARDAÍ are to send a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions on allegations of vote-rigging in Thurles during the June local elections.

The Mayor of Thurles, Labour councillor John Kenehan, said he believed there was widespread vote-rigging in the area and that as many as 300 people could have personated votes.

Inspector John Lynagh, who headed a four-month investigation into the allegations, said: “The DPP will determine if any criminal act took place and if charges should be brought against anyone in relation to these allegations.”