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A college student was left disgusted after allegedly finding a live creepy-crawly moving inside her chicken roll.

The horrifying footage was filmed on Monday lunchtime by Leah Kelly who had just purchased food from a Dublin deli.

The 20-year-old had taken a good chunk out of her food and was going for the second bite when she allegedly noticed the insect wiggling inside.

Leah said that the disturbing incident has put her off getting food from a deli ever again.

She told Dublin Live: "I got the roll at 1:15pm on Monday, it was just a chicken fillet roll with Italian leaves and grated cheese on it and it cost €4.

"I brought the roll back to eat and when I opened it everything seemed grand and I took a bite. It was only when I lifted it back up to take the second bite that the bug crawled out on to the top of the roll and started walking towards me."

The moment got even worse when the fashion design NCAD student noticed that the bug was still alive.

She added: "I nearly died as I was so close to biting into it and I was basically eye level with it. The bug looked like a leaf and I only noticed it as it had long antennas that were moving.

"Other than that it just looked like a leaf it was about the same size as a cockroach although I know it was something different. When I seen it I just threw the roll down and screamed 'it’s moving' and the impact of me throwing it back flung the bug off the roll.

"My friend hadn’t a clue what I was screaming about she thought I was going mad. The bug landed on its back on the table and after I took the video of it I put it into a bottle and brought it back to the shop along with the roll."

Leah marched back to the store and asked for a manager, explaining what had happened and handing over the roll and the bug in the bottle.

She continued: "All he did was offer me an exchange for another roll. I rejected the offer as I will never eat from there again or any deli anymore for that fact because I have lost all trust in them over it.

He asked me what did I want him to do about the situation if I didn’t want a different roll and I asked for a refund which I then got. I also told him that I think his deli staff should take extra precautions when washing their leaves as that was where I presume the bug came from."

Leah added that the manager took a picture of the bug in the bottle but that he "didn't even apologise" to her.

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"I am still shocked and disgusted by it. I notified the Food Safety Authority of Ireland immediately. I was just so lucky I noticed the roll before I ate it, someone else might not have been that lucky."

A spokeswoman for the Food Safety Authority of Ireland said: "We don't comment on individual cases but we take each complaint very seriously and always follow up on it."

Dublin Live has contacted the shop in question on several occasions for further comment.