{"id":499374,"date":"2026-06-14T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499374\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:05:09","slug":"closure-of-leading-mayo-service-station-a-major-retail-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499374\/","title":{"rendered":"Closure of leading Mayo service station a major retail blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781449509_890_imengine.public.prod.cmg.infomaker.io.jpeg\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    Published:<br \/>\n    Sun 14 Jun 2026, 9:13 AM\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The closure of Maxol Service Station at Station Road, Castlebar, is a significant commercial blow for the county town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Located off the busy Cathal Duffy Roundabout, customers learned of the development when a sign was erected on main entrance to the premises after close of business on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The decision has resulted in a number of job losses as well as the shutting down of services it provided for over a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The facility first opened in May, 2016, following a considerable investment in Duffy&#8217;s former garage and its adjoining car showroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The location had been chosen by Maxol at the time to feature the company\u2019s new Moreish food range as well as offering latest caf\u00e9 by Insomnia Coffee Company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The prime location is unlikely to remain vacant for any considerable length of time, however, as it is certain to attract fresh commercial interest.<\/p>\n<p>\n    Published:<br \/>\n    Sun 14 Jun 2026, 9:13 AM\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Sun 14 Jun 2026, 9:13 AM The closure of Maxol Service Station at Station Road, Castlebar, is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-499374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}