Subway has launched a vegan alternative to the favourite meatball marina- the Meatless Meatball Marina.

The Kildare food production company supplies to chains such as McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and Subway.

Dawn farms has acquired its first production facility in mainland Europe.

Applegreen will pay $37.6m (€33.5m) to acquire a minority stake in a group of 23 forecourt-fuel plazas in Connecticut highways between New York and Boston in the US, in a small transaction that nonetheless underlines its plans to expand out its operations in the US.

Over 30 takeaways and restaurants including Eddie Rockets, Subway and Burritos & Blues have signed up to the new service.

Revenues at the Cork arm of soft-drink giant PepsiCo decreased by 16% with lower volumes of Pepsi cola concentrate shipped out of the region last year.

Ireland’s Cricket World Cup qualifier against Afghanistan is playing away on the TV in the background as Rob Ryan sits in the Clanna Gael Fontenoy clubhouse in Dublin, gripping a hurley, and holding court on all things American football.

Lone Star Funds is considering an initial public offering of UK gas-station operator MRH GB that could value the business at about £1.5bn (€1.67bn) amid a revival of stock sales in Europe, according to sources.

Fuel forecourt retailer Applegreen has said Ireland and Britain remain its key focus despite acquiring 42 new petrol stations and Burger King outlets in the US, a move that significantly ramps up its US operations.

Fuel forecourt retailer Applegreen has said its pipeline of petrol filling stations is strong as it outlined expansion plans in Ireland, the UK and the US.

Ireland’s biggest fuel forecourt supplier Topaz has moved to cement its position as market share leader by announcing plans to open a 24-hour motorway service station on the Cork to Dublin motorway.

Dawn Farms has won a contract worth up to €850m to supply cooked sandwich meats to more than 4,000 SUBWAY restaurants across Europe.

In Ireland, Britvic said its wholesale distributor Counterpoint, “also performed well”. 

A leading employment rights lawyer said the issue of pregnancy-related dismissal in the workplace “is now at epidemic levels”.

The Labour Court has ordered a Subway franchise to pay €10,000 to a former employee who, it found, was the victim of unlawful discrimination, victimisation, and dismissal because of her pregnancy.

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A teen spat into the face of man working at a Subway sandwich outlet when he and others were told to move away from the premises.

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Last month Apple said that its mobile payment system, Apple Pay, would arrive in the UK in July. Documents from retailers indicate that July 14th is when it will launch.

Applegreen, the Irish forecourt fuel supplier, plans to benefit from the “grim” reputation of motorway service stations in Britain as it announced a €70m placing of shares and detailed its expansion plans.

Residents of a Cork suburb have warned they will take to the streets if their area is not added to a tax incentive scheme designed to encourage regeneration.

LUCY FALLON, Coronation Street’s newest star, has her driving licence with her at all times. 

“I went to Subway and asked for the biggest, greasiest and most expensive sub they had. They gave me Andy Carroll.”

FASHION retailer Paco is back on a prime Cork City centre shopping street, 25 years after it opened its first Cork store.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers claims owners Fenway Sports Group are delighted with the progress being made at Anfield.

Guided at just under €1m is the 71-bed Midlands hotel, the Creggan Court, part of a roadside complex in the centre of Ireland, at Athlone.

The American sandwich franchise Subway has opened its 200th store in Ireland.

Imagine this: you’ve never had a passport but suddenly you’re on a plane, heading somewhere you’ve never been, with less than 24 hours’ notice and the future wildly uncertain. Then, just when you think it couldn’t get any weirder... one of the country’s boy bands hovers into view.

Sandwich chain Subway has said it plans to open 180 new stores across Ireland over the next six years creating 1,800 jobs.

Subway has announced plans to create 1,800 jobs at 180 new outlets over the next six years, with 400 of the positions to be on offer this year.

Subway is to create 400 jobs with the opening of 40 shops across Ireland, the sandwich maker announced at the opening of their its branch in Douglas in Cork.

The Subway sandwich company has announced plans for a further 40 stores in Ireland in 2014.

Fastfood chain Subway plans to pick up the pace of openings in Europe by adding as many as 1,000 new locations in 2014.

Irish-Swiss bakery group Aryzta is uniquely positioned to capitalise on changes in the North American baked goods market, according to Davy stockbrokers.

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Subway has apologised that its “Footlong” sandwiches fell short of expectations.