Applegreen to open Ireland's first Taco Bell in new M3 service area

Eva Osborne

Applegreen will open Ireland’s first Taco Bell restaurant in a new motorway service area at Junction 6 on the M3 in Dunshaughlin, Co Meath.

The American fast-food chain will officially open in September and is part of a €15 million investment into the new motorway service area.

The investment is creating just over 100 new jobs at the new Dunshaughlin facility, which will also include an M&S Food shop-in-shop outlet, a new Braeburn Coffee Café, a Burger King restaurant, and a deli called Crafted.

The new service area will also have a convenience store, a service station forecourt, and an initial 8 ultra-Fast EV charging ports.

Managing Director of Applegreen’s Republic of Ireland business, Seamus Stapleton, said: “When we announced our plan to bring Taco Bell to Ireland back in April, we were thrilled to see that our customers were just as excited as we were about bringing Taco Bell here.

“We’re delighted to confirm today that Ireland’s first Taco Bell will be located at Applegreen’s new motorway service area on the M3 at Dunshaughlin and it will open in September.

"We plan to open several additional Taco Bell restaurants at our Irish locations over the next five years, and we will update consumers as soon as we have more news of future restaurants."