A STUDENT travel agency has ranked Donegal as the sixth most eager county in Ireland to escape to Australia.
USIT measured a year of Google search demands for Australia-related terms against each county’s population aged 18 to 35.
The agency claimed that this is the age group most eligible for the main working holiday visa.
In Donegal, that works out at 180 searches per 10,000 young people, and a top escape index score of 49.6 out of 100.
A spokesperson for travel agency USIT said: “The pull of Australia is the strongest it has been in over a decade. Around 13,500 people moved from Ireland to Australia in the year to April 2025, up 27 per cent on the year before and almost three times the 2023 figure, according to the CSO.
“It is the highest number since 2013. Donegal young people seem to be longing for a Bondi Beach summer.”