Galway filling station selling petrol and diesel closest to one euro in Ireland

One motorist was passing Applegreen on the Tuam Road today and noticed the significant price difference between there and other filling stations.

At that particular service spot, diesel is 1.55 while petrol is 1.54 putting it among the cheapest fuel prices in the country at the moment.

And here is where you can find other cheap petrol and diesel places across Galway as Tánaiste and Finance Minister Simon Harris confirmed that the excise cuts on fuel will end in September.

Fuel Compare takes prices from over ninety stations across the county saving you time and money by finding out which one is the cheapest in your area from Carna to Ballinasloe.

The website is updated every 24 hours and compares prices from all the top chains including Circle K, Applegreen, Maxol and Topaz/Texaco.

For example, the cheapest diesel you can get in Tuam stands at €1.62 with the average in the area coming in at just under €2.

Meanwhile in Galway city, the cheapest station comes in about 28 cent less per litre than the county’s average.

Cabinet signed off on Government plans to extend the 32c and 27c cut on diesel and petrol respectively but this will begin to be phased out from September onwards.

Minister Harris told RTE’s News at One at the start of this month that the cuts will be reversed fully by the end of this year.

He said: “We want to provide certainty for people, and [are] providing that certainty more than a month out now from the due date of expiry.

“We wanted to manage inflation. The officials in my department, the economists, estimate that the benefit of the government's measures to date have suppressed inflation by around 0.6%, so helping keep food costs down, for example.”

He finished by saying: “Crucially, and I think this is the point we're going to have to watch very carefully, we want to provide a bit of time for the petrol pump operator to pass on the benefit in the reduced cost of oil to the person at the pump.”

“I want to engage with them directly, in fairness, and not through the airwaves, as to when they expect to see the benefit at the pumps.

“It’s not credible that oil used to cost $120 a barrel and now costs $73 a barrel, so it might be that there's a little bit of a lag.”

Regarding the fact that prices haven’t started to come down already, Minister Harris added: “I’m a little surprised [about] that.”