Topaz announces 100 new positions

100 new full-time jobs are on the way to counties Laois and Carlow - after Topaz announced its building two new motorway service stations.

The first will be at Junction 3 on the Dublin Cork Motorway near Ballacolla in Laois - with the other on Junction 5 of the Dublin-Waterford Road.

Work on the sites will begin next year; with two hundred people employed to build them - and a further 100 to work between the two stations.