Luke McKee, with an address at St Catherine’s Foyer, Marrowbone Lane, Dublin 8, pleaded guilty in the District Court to producing a knife contrary to section 11 of the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act, 1990.

It is understood that other retail outlets, including Costcutter and Carry Out will also stop stocking products linked to Mr McGregor.

A supermarket has been ordered to pay €6,000 to a member of the Roma community from Romania for refusing him service in its store last year

A total of 667 reverse vending machines are available to customers in 219 SuperValu and 321 Centra stores nationwide