This morning.
Dublin Airport.
Elly writes:
Haven’t seen the EU passport queues at Dublin airport so long since the referendum. Five lanes full, each stretching the whole length of the passport hall…
Anyone?
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Everything. As It Happens.
bloody tourists, soaking up our rain,buying our rip off tat.
Spot the robber!
Oooohhh look at Mr Fancy Schmancy getting his eyes blocked out whilst the lads in front ane behind are left exposed. Could very well be a dodgy suspect.
You win! Sorry, I don’t have a prize :(
Spot the Irish
August. It’s august.
August is a popular holiday time. Mystery solved
So why don’t they get customs to work extra hours in August, draft in extra staff, etc.?
What goes through a person’s head when they see a queue like this and decide to mail broadsheet about it? Someone who needs to get a hobby.
Hmmm, a hobby that you could do while queueing at passport control… hmmmmm.
Broadsheet posting/commenting?
I started commenting on broadsheet while waiting at the border in 2011. I’m still in that queue!
I reckon it’s along the lines of “this queue is massive! I didn’t expect this. I wonder is this exceptional? I wonder is there a reason for this exceptional queue. A strike? A large event over the weekend that I missed? I can’t think of anything but maybe the internet can. I’ll send this in to Broadsheet and maybe by the time I get to the front of the queue all the insulting comments will have died down and a plausible reason will have been posted. While I’m waiting, since I can’t acutally indulge in my hobby in an airport queue, I can use my phone to read the latest issue of ‘my hobby monthly’. Go me! “
That was pretty much my reasoning to a T! I fly regularly enough, I know that August is busy, but I was still surprised at the length of the queues. Also the biometric machines weren’t open, so that will have added to it.
Great, glad it all got resolved for you. Even though I don’t believe it did? Please though don’t let it stop you sending a pic if there’s a large queue in Tesco later when you do your shopping, or if you’re stuck in traffic on fridya evening. Heaven forbid you ever go to Alton towers.
Alton Towers is pretty quiet at the minute by all accounts!
Yeah bad example. Disneyland, there ya go.
Photography in a secure area? Congrats Elly, you are an idiot.
Broadsheet is the first person I call when I get back from me hols.
Isn’t there a sign in that area saying that the use of mobile phones is forbidden?
Probably, but you take pictures with a camera!
It definitely states that the use of cameras is prohibited.
Flash….aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh
AirBNB millionaires leaving Ireland will their pre-tax loot?
Plausible, if it wasn’t for the fact they are all arriving in.. :)
Ooops!
Amazingly the security staff still have time to say ‘Welcome home Spaghetti’.
“Did ya get me some Joop in the Loop there Hoop?
Pass the time playing snooker with d’troops there Hoop?
Do you mind if I snoop in your loot there Hoop?
Will you fit all that loot in the boot there Hoop?”
That’s what I’d say.
Better than “we’ll need you to strip down to your kecks, Mister Fex”.
They are a great bunch of lads in fairness-most of them v jolly.
Once got a “Nice Jedward” after the “Welcome Home” as I sport quite voluminous hair, quite the chuckle.
Flew in last week at 11pm and the Qs were unbelievable. The EU passport queues were mostly taken up by non-EU citizens and it took forever to check their passports, work permits and god knows what else resulting in everyone else being delayed.
Immigrants. I knew it was them! Even when it was the bears, I knew it was them!
Let the bears pay the bear tax. I pay the Homer tax
Immigrants or tourists, none of them can read the bloody signs!
The DAA is trying (partially successfully0 to make Dublin a hub for transatlantic flights – however they haven’t backed this up with additonal resources or sensible rostering so far as I can see.
August is your answer.
Popular time for travelling.
Thought that was obvious no?
Canny Irish on top of the expected financial slump in Oz doing a bunk back home with Bank of Oz credit card maxed to the diddys
They came back last year.
If you get 4 or 5+ Ryanair aircraft coming in at the same time its likely you will have this issue nothing new really happens pretty much every night between 11pm and midnight. In fairness the queue moves fairly quickly. I was in the same boat myself about a month ago.
Thu/Fri are particularly bad for it.
Didn’t have the heart to break it to the #hometovote crowd
That was funny though.
Still much better than arriving at a UK airport from anywhere other than Ireland and dealing with ‘Border Force’
+1 On a Sunday night the queue can go all the way back to the arrival gates :-(
Is that Pat Rabitte in the checked shirt?
Talked to a lad working there ages ago. They don’t really check passports until there is a tip off of someone shady coming in. Then they go nuts
Someone real slim too.