Dingle name change to go to a people’s vote, rules council

THE people of the Dingle area are to be asked to vote on a controversial decision to change the official name of the town to An Daingean.

Kerry County Council yesterday decided to prepare for a plebiscite, following intense opposition in the area to a decision by Gaeltacht Minister Eamon O Cuiv to have the Irish version only, An Daingean, on road signs outside the Gaeltacht.

It also emerged yesterday that if the name Dingle continued to be used,