Fuel firms bid to overturn Topaz station deal

Two major fuel companies want the Commercial Court to overturn a decision that a rival company owned by businessman Denis O’Brien can build multimillion-euro service stations on two motorways and be the operator on a third.

Applegreen and Tedcastles Oil Products, which formed a consortium called SuperStop 2 to bid for the project, want the court to quash a May 18 decision that Topaz, owned by Mr O’Brien, was the preferred operator.

They want the court to order that SuperStop was the “most economically advantageous tenderer” to design, build, operate, and finance service stations on the M6 in Athlone and on the M9 in Kilcullen.