Weekend break: Co Donegal

Donegal has topped the National Geographic Traveller’s Cool List for 2017. Conor Power takes a road trip to find out why. 

Weekend break: Co Donegal
Sat, 11 Mar, 2017 - 00:00
Conor Power

WELCOME to the forgotten county!”

This is how I was often greeted upon arriving at the coastal fishing town of Burtonport on the western Donegal coast before we set off for an offshore island.

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