Dingle renaming exposes legal loophole

THE controversy about renaming Dingle as An Daingean has thrown the local legal system into chaos.

Amid claims by the town's business people the name change has caused wholesale confusion for visitors, proceedings at the local court ground to a halt on Friday over the change of name.

Legal experts were lost for a definitive answer on whether they were legally in Dingle or An Daingean. The Court Services Act, which came into force on March 28, insists all placenames in Gaeltacht areas must be written in Irish.