Forming a co-op: keep success as the target and forget about the Jonahs

I AGREE with Nora Bennis (Letters May 11) that the co-operative model may well be the way forward during the present unemployment crisis.

I speak from the experience of being involved in the setting up of one of the largest workers’ co-operatives in Ireland in 1984 — Carrigdhoun Pottery Co-operative Society Ltd.

People who were out of work for 12 months or more and were in danger of becoming unemployable were given hope for the future.