Olympic torch spotlights Northern Ireland coast

Olympic torchbearers have carried the symbolic flame of the London Games to a string of Northern Ireland's most beautiful coastal attractions, and are heading next to two communities associated with moments of terror.

Two torchbearers met in the middle of the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, a vertigo-inducing tourist attraction, with one using her torch flame to light the other's torch. Next a torchbearer walked carefully along the Giant's Causeway, a stunning geological feature composed of tens of thousands of hexagonal rocks. The flame next visited the ruins of Dunluce Castle, a medieval cliffside residence that was abandoned after its kitchen collapsed into the Atlantic.

Later on Monday the Olympic relay passes through the villages of Ballykelly and Greysteel, names synonymous with two of the worst mass killings of Northern Ireland's conflict.