50% of Dingle houses are lying empty, council hears

MORE than half of the residential properties in the tourist haven of Dingle are unoccupied, it was claimed yesterday.

And the Co Kerry peninsula town has such a surplus of holiday homes that some housing estates are unoccupied or uncompleted.

The disclosures came yesterday as council officials proposed the dezoning of several hundred of acres of land in the town due to the collapse of the construction industry.