90% vote in favour of An Daingean name change

Updated: 22:05, Friday, 20 October 2006

More than 1,000 people have voted to apply to the Government to change the name of An Daingean to Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis.

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Nine News: Paschal Sheehy, Southern Editor, reports that more than 1000 people have voted in a plebiscite to ask the Government to change the name of An Daingean
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Six One News: Paschal Sheehy, Southern Editor, reports on the plebiscite in west Kerry
Six One News: Paschal Sheehy, Southern Editor, reports on the plebiscite in west Kerry

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More than 1,000 people have voted in a plebiscite to apply to the Government to change the name of the west Kerry Gaeltacht town from An Daingean to Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis.

The proposal was carried by over 90%.

Campaigners for the name change have called on Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Éamon Ó Cuív to honour the democratic will of the people.

This morning, Mr Ó Cuív warned that he has no legal power to act on the results of the plebiscite.

But he said if Kerry County Council comes to him with a request that he can act on within the law, he would be willing to give it serious consideration.

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