It was an audacious break-out of a different kind at the height of the Troubles that was subsequently met with a typically wry Northern Irish sense of humour. In 1972 power cuts resulted in the monkey cages at the Causeway Safari Park opening up. Given it was the deadliest year of the conflict, popular folklore tells that the normally curious mammals — perturbed by all the goings on — concluded it was safer to retreat back into their cages.