For any visiting tourists brave enough to stick the long journey from Dublin Airport to the northwest of Co Donegal, a stop at Ballyness Bay will make the trip well worth the effort. Tucked away behind two large sand spits and Magheroarty Beach, which curls outward into the Atlantic, the turquoise waters of the shallow bay make it an area of outstanding natural beauty. It is also an ecologically unique site and has protected status from the EU for its estuaries, tidal sandflats, dunes and a rare species of snail. Otters and seals, also protected under EU nature laws due…

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