Gardaí contacted over co-op enrolment

A group of former work colleagues have complained to gardaí after being unwittingly enrolled in a co-op that voted their boss’ husband onto the board of a State-sponsored quango.

The six people had worked at the River Rooms on Western Road, Clonakilty, Co Cork, which is owned and run by Geraldine O’Gorman, 47, of Brookfield House, just outside the town.

Her husband, auctioneer Kieran O’Gorman, 49, won an election to represent the southern region on the Irish Horse Board Co-op in Nov 2011. The co-op is subsidiary of Horse Sport Ireland.