Ikea sold over 1m meatballs last year

Ikea last year sold more than 1m meatballs at its Dublin store and yesterday predicted it would have an even more successful 2014.

The Swedish furnishing giant confirmed 1.027m meatballs were sold at its Ballymun store in spite of the firm withdrawing a batch for sale in response to the horsemeat scare in February.

A spokeswoman said that if you were to line up all the meatballs sold at the store last year, they would “equal to 41.8km which would take you from Ikea Ballymun to Bray on the M50”.