"It has sat here for well over a thousand years and has never suffered such damage." Heritage experts fear lasting damage may have been caused to a centuries-old monument known as the Deer Stone in Glendalough, Co Wicklow. Read more:

@sthompsonIT This event proves Cameras must go into car park of Glendalough . 10 yrs in prison should be the charge

I could never understand vandals. What was the point of doing that?

This is why History cannot be dropped from the JC Course @Education_Ire

When do you reckon it was vandalised?

So sad. A downside to tourism. We were discussing this the other day about Maui which is on fire, but Maui already had some serious issues with tourism. People just don't respect history at all or beautiful places like this. Fence it off, punish people who commit vandalism.

Raging. Scumbags

This is awful…the absolute ignorance of burning a fire in a national monument.

All part of their demoralisation campaign of cutting the legs out from under us. Same as Notre Dame just on a smaller scale.

awful, just awful/

Shame 😥