I kept this Easter egg in my fridge for 43 years 

John says that although he's not 'sentimental', the egg will stay put in the fridge and his family know not to touch it. Picture supplied by Louise Walsh

An Easter Egg which was too nice to open has stayed untouched at the back of a fridge for the last 43 years in a Co Louth house.

John Gartlan, from Kilcurry, Dundalk, received the egg as a present when he was just five years old and over four decades and four fridges later, it still remains 'on ice'.