Save McConaghys Souvenir shop at the Giants Causeway
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LINDA MAC
8 years ago
Stop the bullying tactics.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Build toilet block elsewhere
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Alastair Kane
8 years ago
Why close a long standing store just to turn it into a toilet? Surely it's cheaper to build a purpose built building??
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Jon hill
8 years ago
Wise up
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Adrienne
8 years ago
70 years of hard work need not be replaced for a toilet.
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Andy
8 years ago
Wise up National Trust. Build your toilet elsewhere.
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Heather
8 years ago
No comment needed; hands off National Trust!!!!
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Cliff
8 years ago
Good luck with the petition. The NT should be helping the smaller businesses as they are a part of the areas history as well.
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Sandra wylie
8 years ago
NT should start thinking about local communities and not just business plans
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Tony Corcoran
8 years ago
National trust toilets will be only for those who pay to enter visitor centre. Small independent business should be celebrated not flattened.
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Isobel Glover
8 years ago
I am disgusted at the way national trust is treating this gift shop. I can remember going to the giants causeway with my parents and grandmother on many an occasion as a child from away back in 1958 as soon as I was walking .when there were lots of little shops down on the causeway. Shame we have to pay to visit childhood haunts.
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Donna McCormick
8 years ago
This is real down to earth working history - the NT should be supporting it - not shutting it down.
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wendy preston
8 years ago
disgusting behaviour from national trust. as a member i am disgusted. national trust should preserve our heritage not destroy our communities.
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Sarah
8 years ago
Sounds to me like it's your shop
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Orla Magill
8 years ago
No to national Trust destroying a family businsess
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Shop should remain where it is disgraceful on national trust part
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Karen Creamery
8 years ago
That's a disgrace. ...
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Julie Frayne
8 years ago
They can't do this,we visit your shop every time we come to Ireland,it wouldn't be the same without you.
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Jennifer Bridgman
8 years ago
The best shop to buy your Souvenirs. They have a great variety to choose from and they are reasonably priced. This is a family owned business. I remember being with my Mum buying from them when they where down on the Causeway. My Mum and Mr. McConaghy went to school together when they were growing up. So we visited his shop every year when we came on holiday from Scotland. Now that I live in America I still visit the shop when I'm home visiting family. Leave the family alone. They have been there for 70 years and let them keep there family business. You can build the toilets inside the center or build them some where else.
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Sheldon McMullan
8 years ago
The NT are greedy robbers, dressed as those who seek to preserve landmarks. All they want to do is rip off the people who want to visit. They are over the top in terms of H&S too. You can barely walk on the stones without some orange coated oik blowing their jobsworth whistle at you. In other countries, locals who live and work in and around landmarks are respected but not in the U.K. The GC should be purchased and run as a community endeavour which benefits the community and preserves this natural and historic wonder for all people, not the coffers of the NT.
Stop the bullying tactics.
Build toilet block elsewhere
Why close a long standing store just to turn it into a toilet? Surely it's cheaper to build a purpose built building??
Wise up
70 years of hard work need not be replaced for a toilet.
Wise up National Trust. Build your toilet elsewhere.
No comment needed; hands off National Trust!!!!
Good luck with the petition. The NT should be helping the smaller businesses as they are a part of the areas history as well.
NT should start thinking about local communities and not just business plans
National trust toilets will be only for those who pay to enter visitor centre. Small independent business should be celebrated not flattened.
I am disgusted at the way national trust is treating this gift shop. I can remember going to the giants causeway with my parents and grandmother on many an occasion as a child from away back in 1958 as soon as I was walking .when there were lots of little shops down on the causeway. Shame we have to pay to visit childhood haunts.
This is real down to earth working history - the NT should be supporting it - not shutting it down.
disgusting behaviour from national trust. as a member i am disgusted. national trust should preserve our heritage not destroy our communities.
Sounds to me like it's your shop
No to national Trust destroying a family businsess
Shop should remain where it is disgraceful on national trust part
That's a disgrace. ...
They can't do this,we visit your shop every time we come to Ireland,it wouldn't be the same without you.
The best shop to buy your Souvenirs. They have a great variety to choose from and they are reasonably priced. This is a family owned business. I remember being with my Mum buying from them when they where down on the Causeway. My Mum and Mr. McConaghy went to school together when they were growing up. So we visited his shop every year when we came on holiday from Scotland. Now that I live in America I still visit the shop when I'm home visiting family. Leave the family alone. They have been there for 70 years and let them keep there family business. You can build the toilets inside the center or build them some where else.
The NT are greedy robbers, dressed as those who seek to preserve landmarks. All they want to do is rip off the people who want to visit. They are over the top in terms of H&S too. You can barely walk on the stones without some orange coated oik blowing their jobsworth whistle at you. In other countries, locals who live and work in and around landmarks are respected but not in the U.K. The GC should be purchased and run as a community endeavour which benefits the community and preserves this natural and historic wonder for all people, not the coffers of the NT.