M9 service station to open near Kilcullen 'in mid-2019'

A motorway service area on the M9 at Kilcullen is finally due to open by the middle of next year, it has emerged.

An overbridge and off ramps were built but abandoned south of Kilcullen.

Legal issues that held up the completion of the project have been resolved.

Sources told the Irish Times that Circle K - formerly Topaz- will take a 25-year lease on the site and pay to build the service facilities at Kilcullen as well as at Moate in Co Westmeath.

Transport Infrastructure Ireland said the organisation had incurred €575,000 in legal costs after it was challenged by an underbidder for the right to operate the three service areas.

It is understood that the Kilcullen service station will be open by mid-2019.