Councillors ignore warnings to vote for more re-zoning

DESPITE warnings from a top official that Dingle is ‘vastly over-zoned’ for housing, local councillors have voted to rezone more land for holiday homes.

Enough land has already been zoned to house more than 2,000 people - the equivalent of more than doubling the Kerry town’s current population.

Udaras na Gaeltachta has also warned that too many holiday homes are having a detrimental effect on the Irish language and has called for a moratorium on the zoning of further lands for holiday homes.