Don’t give burgers to charity, says Capuchin friar

No decision has yet been made on how to dispose of the 10m burgers taken off the shelves due to horsemeat contamination — and one of the country’s busiest emergency food providers has said it would not give them to its clients.

The Capuchin Day Centre on Dublin’s Bow St hands out as many as 1,500 food parcels to people each Wednesday, and can have 600 people a week in for breakfast.

The lengthening queues for food parcels has been an illustration of the growing hardship experienced by many families, but yesterday Br Kevin Crowley dismissed any idea that the unwanted burgers would be used by charities.