Free McMuffin causes McMayhem

Hundreds of free-breakfast hunters flocked to their local McDonald’s yesterday to avail of the fast food giant’s offer of free mcmuffins to all who turned up before 10am at one of its 89 outlets across Ireland.

Demand was so high local newspaper the Tallaght Echo reported that gardaí were required to direct the larger-than-normal volume of traffic into one of its restaurants in the Dublin suburb.

A spokesperson for the Garda Press Office was not in a position to comment on how many gardaí were required to manage traffic due to the promotion.