Supermac’s owner, Pat McDonagh, has secured planning permission for a new €10m motorway services plaza on the M7 near Portlaoise, despite claims it will lead to the creation of two rival operations within 150 metres of each other.

FOR a while yesterday, I felt like I must be the lucky one.

CEMENT mixer vehicles yesterday caused disruption during a protest, over allegedly unpaid monies, as a new section of the M7motorway between Limerick and Dublin was opened yesterday.