Train from Dublin Airport to the City Centre

If you arrive on a flight to Dublin Airport (DUB), you won’t be able to take a train into the Dublin city centre just yet.

Plans are underway for a new metro from Dublin Airport to the city, but the project has been put on hold and may not be completed for some time.

When the metro is up and running, the train will take just 18 minutes to get from Dublin Airport to St Stephen’s Green, which is located right in the heart of the city centre. The metro is slated to leave from a new train station between the two terminals at the airport.

Construction on the train from Dublin Airport to the Dublin city centre was scheduled to start in 2010, but there is no completion date set yet. In the meantime, the best ways to get to your final destination are to take a bus or a taxi. The airport is located just 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the city centre, so it is relatively fast and cheap to get to destinations in Dublin and further afield.

Buses from Dublin Airport to the City Centre

If you’ve booked a flight to the Irish capital, buses from Dublin Airport to the Dublin city centre are an easy and inexpensive way to get to your final destination. There are a number of different buses that leave from Dublin Airport and travel to various locations in the city.

If you have a bus or train connection to make when you arrive in Dublin, there are buses that run from the airport to the central bus station, Connolly train station, and Heuston train station.

To get from Dublin Airport to any of the aforementioned stations or the city centre, take Airlink bus number 747 from outside of the arrivals halls.

The bus takes 30 minutes to get to the last stop and lets passengers off at the O2 Dublin, the Convention Centre, the International Financial Services Centre, the Central Bus Station (Busáras), Connolly Rail Station, Luas Red Line, O’Connell Street, Trinity College and Temple Bar, Christchurch, and Heuston Rail Station on the way.

Airlink bus 747 operates daily from 6:00 to 23:30 (7:00 to 23:20 on Sundays) with departures every 15 minutes from 6:45 to 20:50 (every 15 to 20 minutes from 10:00 to 22:20 on Sundays).

Dublin Airport Bus Tickets

Single tickets for Airlink buses from Dublin Airport to the Dublin city centre cost 6 euros for adults and 3 euros for children. Return tickets cost 10 euros for adults and 5 euros for children.

You can purchase bus tickets at the information desks in the airport, at the machine at the bus stop at Terminal 1, or from the driver.

Other Ways to Get from Dublin Airport to the Dublin City Centre

Other ways of getting from Dublin Airport to the city include car hire, airport taxis, and private cars.

Ryanair Flights to Dublin, Ireland

Ryanair, the famous low-cost airline in Ireland, offers flights to Dublin Airport (DUB) from cities all across Europe.

While some Ryanair flights to Dublin Airport are seasonal and only fly during specific periods, many operate year-round.

Ryanair has flights to Dublin from the following cities and airports: Alghero, Alicante, Barcelona, Beauvais, Bergamo, Berlin, Biarritz, Birmingham, Bratislava, Bristol, Brussels South Charleroi, Budapest, Bydgoszcz, Carcassonne, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Faro, Frankfurt (Hahn), Fuerteventura, Gdansk, Girona, Glasgow (Prestwick), Gran Canaria, Grenoble, Ibiza, Katowice, Kaunas, Krakow, Lanzarote, La Rochelle, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, Lodz, London (Gatwick, Luton, Stansted), Lublin, Maastricht Aachen, Madrid, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Marseille, Memmingen, Murcia, Nantes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nice, Nottingham/East Midlands, Oslo (Rygge), Palermo, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Porto, Poznan, Reus, Riga, Rodez, Rome (Ciampino), Rzeszow, Salzburg, Santander, Seville, Stockholm (Skavsta), Szczecin, Tallinn, Tenerife (South), Tours, Treviso, Turin, Valencia, Vilnius, Warsaw (Modlin), Wroclaw, and Zadar.

If you can’t find a Ryanair flight from your origin city to Dublin, you can check out other airlines that offer cheap flights here.

When you arrive at Dublin Airport, you have a number of options for getting into the city. These include buses and coaches, airport taxis, and car hire.