Visitors to the Giant’s Causeway, the world-famous tourist attraction in Northern Ireland, are being urged not to indulge in the popular ritual of wedging coins in between the site’s iconic stones. UK ...

Tourists are damaging the Giant’s Causeway by jamming coins into the cracks of the stones. Coins have been left wedged into the basalt rock columns at the popular spot in north Co Antrim. Reflecting ...

Small coins are causing giant problems at one of Northern Ireland’s most famous natural sites. Authorities are urging ...

A decades-old ritual is causing both aesthetic and physical damage to the world-famous Giant's Causeway in Co Antrim, ...

Coins squeezed into the gaps in the basalt columns of the tourist attraction in north Antrim eventually rust and expand, ...

The Giant's Causeway has faced many threats to its survival, from mythical fights between giants to coastal erosion and ...

The Giant's Causeway in Co Antrim is being damaged by visitors leaving coins in the cracks of the famous stones.

Northern Ireland’s World Heritage Site is being damaged by visitors leaving coins in the cracks of the famous stones. Scores of coins have been left wedged into the cracks of the basalt rock columns ...

Unsightly streaks of copper, nickel and iron oxides are also staining the stones where the ... than 40,000 columns at the Giant’s Causeway, which is Northern Ireland’s first Unesco World ...

Visitors to the Giant’s Causeway, the world-famous tourist attraction in Northern Ireland, are being urged ... coins in between the site’s iconic stones. UK heritage body the National Trust ...

Unsightly streaks of copper, nickel and iron oxides are also staining the stones where the ... than 40,000 columns at the Giant’s Causeway, which is Northern Ireland’s first Unesco World ...