Defeated Roscommon man Michael Naughton pictured with his half finished breakfast. Michael had 30 minutes to tackle the world's largest breakfast in The Hard Boiled Egg Cafe, Cavan, last Thursday afternoon. PHOTOS: SHEILA ROONEY

Hard Boiled Egg sets the record straight

Popping champagne corks accompanied the momentous occasion, when at 3.30pm on January 26 last, weighing in at a whopping 3.926 kilogrammes the Hard Boiled Egg Café officially entered the gastronomic history books by cooking and selling the world's new largest breakfast. The gut-busting breakfast, brainchild of Hard Boiled Egg proprietors John and Elizabeth Gaughan's daughter Aoife, overwhelmingly surpassed the previous holder of the title, Mario's Café Bar in Bolton, England by adding a whole kilogramme of food on top of the previous record. See this week's Celt for more...