Families were today urged to recycle the 42,000 tonnes of packaging they will discard after eating an estimated 6.4 million Easter eggs.

The man accused of killing a 54-year-old loan company agent was a “Walter Mitty” a murder trial jury heard today.

Two Dublin sisters have gone on trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murder of an African man who’s dismembered and headless body was pulled from the Royal Canal in Dublin last year.