Dingle road signage
Senator Coghlan welcomes the restoration of signs reading “Dingle – Daingean Uí Chúis,” following the local plebiscite, with Senators debating the correct Irish name and tourism benefits.
I join Councillor Séamus Cosaí Fitzgerald in welcoming the return of road signs that direct people to Dingle. Under a previous Administration, it was ordered that signage for Dingle would be in the Irish language and that the town would be known as "An Daingean"
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The people of Dingle decided in a plebiscite, as I reminded the previous Seanad, that the name should be "Dingle - Daingean Uí Chúis."
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The National Roads Authority has decided that this is what will be done and it will happen in the next month or two. This is to be welcomed in advance of the tourism season. Too many visitors to Dingle, that delightful part of the world in beautiful County Kerry, did not know where they were going.
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"An Daingean" meant nothing to them.
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Tourist numbers are falling in Galway.