{"id":632337,"date":"2026-09-22T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632337\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:16:09","slug":"applegreen-to-open-e15m-naas-ball-service-area-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/632337\/","title":{"rendered":"Applegreen to open \u20ac15m Naas Ball service area next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel and forecourt retailer Applegreen will open its new \u20ac15m roadside service area close to the Naas Ball at Junction 9 on the M7 in Co Kildare next Tuesday, September 29.<\/p>\n<p>The Naas site, which is creating 150 new jobs, will initially include Popeyes and Taco Bell outlets, M&amp;S Food, Crafted Kitchen &amp; Deli, Braeburn Coffee, as well as an Applegreen forecourt and convenience store.<\/p>\n<p>The Popeyes outlet there will be the first Popeyes Drive-Thru in the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Applegreen said it will also open an additional drive-thru brand at the new Naas site in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>The site will also have eight Applegreen Fast Charge ultra-fast EV chargers with a total of 16 charging points, and a separate truck stop for HGV fuelling.<\/p>\n<p>Naas is the second major new service area that Applegreen has opened in Ireland in the past 12 months. Last September, it launched a new \u20ac15m site at Junction 6 on the M3 in Dunshaughlin, Co Meath.<\/p>\n<p>Applegreen opened its first service station in Ballyfermot in Dublin in 1992 and now has almost 200 locations in the Irish market. It is currently investing \u20ac1 billion to grow its operations in Ireland, the UK and the US.<\/p>\n<p>It is adding new locations in all of its markets through developing and acquiring new sites and it is also continuing to upgrade and improve its existing network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fuel and forecourt retailer Applegreen will open its new \u20ac15m roadside service area close to the Naas Ball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-632337","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\/632337","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=632337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}