Woman chips in on losing tooth in burger

A Limerick fast food outlet where the Munster rugby team once celebrated by filling the Heineken Cup with its famous chips was at the centre of a legal maul yesterday during which a judge issued a red card to two insurance companies.

Martina Byrnes, of Quarry Rd, Thomondgate, sued Luigi Orlandi, trading as Luigiorlandi Ltd, Parnell St, and Rangeland Foods, Castleblaney, Co Monaghan, after losing a tooth when biting into a piece of plastic lodged in a burger.

With a friend, Ms Byrnes got two takeaways from Luigi’s on the evening of July 10, 2012. As she ate a burger at her friend’s house, she bit into a piece of tubular plastic. She spat out the burger meat and found that raw meat was lodged in a 2in piece of plastic.