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OVER 110 JOBS have been created with the opening of two Topaz service stations in Dublin and Laois.
There are 45 new jobs up for grabs at the Northern Cross station at Clonshaugh in Dublin.
An additional 20 jobs will be created by Supermac’s, who have opened a new family restaurant and drive through, as well as a Papa John’s Pizza restaurant at the station.
Jobs
The new motorway service station in the Ballacolla region in Laois, located at Junction 3 on the M8 Dublin to Cork roadway, is due to open on Monday.
A further 65 jobs will be available at this site.
Former Munster and Ireland star Alan Quinlan and Irish footballer and FIFA Puskas Award finalist Stephanie Roche opened the stations today.
Both sites will provide services to approximately 50,000 motorists using the two motorways each day.
Paul Candon, Group Marketing Director at Topaz said he was delighted with the new stations.
He said Topaz will try their very best “to deliver top quality customer care to the local community and road users travelling through the area”.
Managing Director of Supermac’s Pat McDonagh said the company has received great support from the people of Clonshaugh already.
We are also looking forward to working with Topaz here on site, and are sure that our customers will be very pleased with the choice that is available to them.
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Get Denis O’Brien to pay back the million that were written off his debts in Anglo that we are still paying. Not to mention 2nd hand reconditioned meters that his other company Sierra are trying to rip us off with. Boycott! Boycott! Boycott! and BIFFO at the helm?????? Judas Escariott is only in the halfpenny place compared to him!
Biffo a director for that sucm bag, Apple green for me.
BIGTIME — we’ve haven’t set foot in a TOPAZ station in nearly a year.
Boycott! Boycott! Boycott! especially with BIFFO & The MENACE at the helm!
Same here. Never go near Topaz. The idea of giving those f***rs any more of my money kills me. DRIVE ON!
I avoid also, except the few occasions I am literally out of petrol and I free wheel into the courtyard, then I top up with them.
So you don’t avoid or boycott then?
Relax bud, How mental would I look if I walked a couple of miles down the road with a jerrycan to the next petrol station while my car is parked up in a petrol station.. “This will show them!”
Topaz is the LAST place I would go to launder red diesel.
Patrick, maybe you could try filling up before you are completely empty, allowing you to boycott
Topaz coffee all the way!!!!!!!!!!
Topaz = Irish water= Denis O Brien.
Also Brian Cowen is on the board of directors. Boycott. Boycott. And why would you use Topaz anyway it’s at least 5 cent p/litre more expensive than Apple green and Maxol ect.
Petrol and Diesel were only 98c per litre today in Clonsaugh
Ah, good stuff. Two more Denis O’Brien owned establishments for me to boycott…
Minimum wage jobs with zero hours contracts, this will all come back to bite these people when consumers just stop consuming
Another 2 places to not buy petrol. I’d rather run out of petrol, and have to walk five miles in the rain. The lovely, free rain.
Yes, rain is free…..just don’t be going collecting it in some system you bought for conservation or treatment, that’s a taxable offence.
Denis O’Brien and his employees in fine gael spent billions setting up a quango…coincidentally using motor tax…to harvest rain for you, it’d be a shame if all that money went to waste.
Its funny, any comment against water charges/ FG etc got a lot of thumbs down immediately, until around 4 o clock, then been all thumbs up since. They must knock off early on a Friday
certainly, boycotted them last year and tell everyone same, in fact most IW protesters are aware. They might as well let those staff go now though if they’re scam bridgers which i’d imagine many of them will be then no loss… yet.
crooks
Topaz !!. No thank you.
No interest in supporting that company.
65 jobs at a filling station?
….and you still have to fill it up yourself.
I can never figure out those numbers either, 45 and 65 per station? How would you need more than like 15 people tops unless non are full time and they are all only working one day a week or something? Or perhaps a load of 17 years olds stacking shelves for an evening each.
They are all on Jobsbridge…have to get those unemployment numbers down afterall!
Will we be seeing Brian Cohen behind a till I wonder ? And Stephanie Roche wouldn’t have done this shoot if it was before the cut off to vote for her lol
Is brian Cohen the Jewish version of Brian Cowan?
It’s auto correct ! You don’t get away with much here do you ?!!
Applegreen for me, O’Brien, Cowen et al can sing for it.
Dearest fuel in Ireland.
Of course no mention of the one in Waterford. Typical Dublin media!! http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2015/02/05/good-news-as-one-new-job-announced-for-waterford-city/
Where?
That one is irrelevant it does not belong to D.O.B yet. His PR team Kenny and co do not support small business with white stationary.
Low paid jobs. Wages should start at a minimum of €45,000, and workers should not have to pay: USC, proper tax, water or bin charges. Transport should be supplied to and from work. Workers should also be given the option of retiring at 50. FG/Lab traitors would probably claim the country could not afford this. Tax the rich and we could afford this and much more.
I’m not sure if you are taking the p*ss or not. If not, you are one crazy dude.
I’m fairly certain he is taking the proverbial.
Yes, let’s tax the sh!te out of the people that can most afford to leave the country so we won’t get a penny off them. Makes sense.
Pat is just describing the perks of being a fine gael politician.
JJ, it does not matter if they leave or not. Most of them inherited their wealth from the British imperialists. When they leave we can confiscate their property and divide it out among the working classes, even those that never worked or have no intention of doing so.
Anyone who says the wealthy should pay tax doesn’t know how economics work and is probably a rabid terrorist that eats babies.
Most rational people know that the wealthy don’t pay tax here because they don’t live here..(winks at Denis)….and the government would have to dip into the pension reserve and taxes to set up a private water company…(winks at Denis)
Tap solny….agree with you on those who now class themselves as “working class” rarely work or sinn fein supporters ;) I recall driving through summer hill Dublin before Xmas, with one of the corpo housing complex having a sign outside it “happy Christmas to all the working class”….!!
Jesus I think you’re actually being serious, tap. Is it tap or tapped that you are?
Tap,
I agree but state should provide 3 bedroom detached house and a holiday home in Spain but private healthcare. Holidays 12 weeks per year and a free family car up to €30 k.
Free healthcare goes with out saying and double bonus a Xmas
And that is the terrorists’ approach to economics, Dermot. Been Jarrys idea all along.
Paul, excellent suggestions. I will contact my local SF office who will be organise this once they are either elected or organise a popular people’s coup.
Obama Plaza is a great spot to stop off and get a bit of grub
Great. Still won’t be getting petrol there
I would not buy petrol there either. It seems to have an adverse effect on my diesel engine.
Obama plaza….I must head down there sometime to see this monument to an American of Kenyan descent.
100 new jobs….did I miss something or is this not good news?
Not when it’s the likes of Supermacs and Topaz. Min wage, zero hour contracts from employers who’ve no concern for employee rights.
100 jobs. Why is this news. It is so insignificant.
And where’s the TD claiming all the credit and glory????? I demand one be named.
Topaz and supermuck
Im avoiding esso as well because i hear topaz are taking them over.
This will probably annoy people but Denis O’Brien negotiated a write down of the debt before he bought the debt, it was a condition of the sale. This is quite common. The toxicity of the debt was such that a pre – deal write down was inevitable to move the debt. If there had been no write, neither Denis O’Brien nor anyone else, would have bought the associated debt. In that case, the toxicity of the debt would remain relatively unchanged and the debt would remain unpaid.
Now that will be all very confusing for the guys her so I reckon we could just ignore than and make some vague reference to Denis O’Brien being a cartoon villain.
Do you get ever tired of defending Denis O Brien?
If any other political party in this banana republic was so close to a tax dodger who previously bribed politicians you’d be screaming corruption.
down with facts and logic,
this is not the place for it.
Facts are one thing, logic does not apply to fine gael thieving from taxes and the pension reserve to back up the most disastrous quango out of several quangos.
Denis O’Brien has a very cozy relationship with fine gael, we’ll see down the line who buys it for a knockdown price, it’s not like this has not happened before between fg and dob.
So if Dinny hadn’t got the debt write-off to buy Siteserv, he wouldn’t have bought Siteserv and we get nothing. If Dinny didn’t buy SIteserv we wouldn’t have got the debt back and we egt nothing. So, WE get nothing either way and Dinny gets a company for shag all and the contract to install €600 million’s worth of useless meters into the homes of people who dont want them. Jesus, WE got f8cked a few times there.
How did Dinny get the license for SIteserv so fast? Hope he’s not up to his usual again?
Dinny + Ray Burke = Century radio license!
Dinny + Michael Lowry = Esat license!
A great little country to do corruption in!
Dobby and Cowen, enough said! Feck that!
wow more jobs, thanks enda :)
Ques for miles for the Topaz station in Clonshaugh today I guess most ppl couldn’t give a toss who owns the petrol station it might as well be Mickey mouse ,if it keeps ppl off the dole and they keep serving that Brazilian coffee well who givea a f##k ,what’s next should we all boycott buying houses as Denis o Brown has a vested interest in construction aswell .
I’m delighted that a company that has invested so much in ireland is doing so well. well done topaz, you have my custom guaranteed :)
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