Taxpayer faces €10,000 bill to put the A back in Lahinch

Residents living in the seaside resort of “Lehinch” are poised to put the A back into the resort’s name in a move that could cost the tax-payer at least €10,000 to implement.

The seaside resort has been popularly known as Lahinch since the 1850s, but the name was changed on official road signs to Lehinch around five years ago.

This arises from the resort appearing as Lehinch on the Placenames Database of Ireland and on Ordnance Survey Maps.