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If there’s an Irish woollen jumper in your cupboard that has yet to see proper use, give it a fitting holiday on its home country’s Atlantic coast in deepest winter. Bleak weather is precisely what lighthouses such as that at Fanad Head (above), were built for, and three cottages on this promontory in the north of County Donegal are fitted with fireplaces or stoves to dry off by. On a clear day, Ballymastocker Beach has golden sands (if not water temperatures) to rival those of the tropics - though when the waves are beating the rocks, it’s probably board-game time.
Two nights from £250;
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