Ireland’s best kept secret

It’s official! Met Éireann figures prove that while the rest of us got drenched all summer, Donegal was bathed in sun, says Paddy Clancy

WHILE most of Ireland, particularly the south, was wet this summer, the weather was fantastic in Donegal.

Folk there didn’t want the sunniness kept quiet. In a county where jobs have vanished by the thousands and the young have emigrated to Australia, business and tourism providers wanted everybody to know.