New figures from Dublin Airport operator daa show that passengers at the airport ate an Irish breakfast every 50 seconds on average during 2025.
The daa statistics also show that the airport’s bars sold more than 1.2 million pints of Guinness, while passengers drank almost 3 million cups of tea and coffee during the year.
The top-selling crisp sold in the airport this year was Tayto, with more than 550,000 packets sold.
Meanwhile, more than 43 tonnes of Toblerone were sold at Dublin Airport last year, while spirit sales were strong in duty free with a total of 409,000 litres of Irish whiskey sold and 133,000 litres of vodka.
The figures from daa come after what has been a record year for passenger numbers at Ireland’s main airport.
Final passenger numbers for the year will be published by daa in January and are likely to show that more than 35 million passengers passed through Dublin Airport on around 240,000 flights.
Passengers checked in a total of nine million suitcases, weighing more than 127,000 tonnes.
Graeme McQueen, Head of Media Relations at daa, said that 2025 has been a record year at Dublin Airport, adding that passenger satisfaction ratings reached at an all-time high.
“The consistent uptick in passenger happiness levels over the past three years follows the continuous rollout of improvements in the terminals, all based on feedback from passengers,” Mr McQueen said.
He said this year has seen the introduction of new lounges, the extension of the airport’s Drop & Go parking product to Terminal 1 and the rollout of many new food and drink outlets in both terminals, including the San Marco Italian restaurant and Pret A Manger outlet in Terminal 1, and the new Ryan’s Irish bar in Terminal 2.
“This year also saw us complete the multi-million euro rollout of new cutting edge C3 scanners in both terminals, which enabled us to remove the old 100ml liquid limit once and for all,” he said.
More improvements are also soon coming to both terminals, including a revamp of the duty free area in Terminal 1, a new lounge in Terminal 1 that is twice the size of the old lounge and a revamped 51st and Green lounge in Terminal 2.
