Busy year for food, drink and passenger numbers at Dublin Airport

Passengers at Dublin Airport devoured an Irish breakfast every 50 seconds on average during 2025, according to new end-of-year figures released today by airport operator daa.

Washing them down wasn’t a problem, with daa’s stats showing that the airport’s bars sold more than 1.2 million pints of Guinness.

The kettles in the airport’s cafes were kept busy too, with passengers sipping almost three million cups of tea and coffee during the year, while the top-selling crisp sold in the airport in 2025 was Ireland’s old favourite – Tayto, with more than 550,000 packets sold.

Airport operator, daa, has released the statistics at the end of what has been a record year for passenger numbers at Ireland’s main airport with the total expected to exceed 35 million in 2025.

During the year, passengers checked in a total of nine million suitcases, weighing more than 127,000 tones – the equivalent of 21,000 male African elephants.

The most popular passenger names in the year were John and Mary with enough Johns and Marys travelling to fill 1,096 and 603 Boeing 737 planes respectively.

When it comes to chocolate and whiskey, more than 43 tonnes of Toblerone were sold at Dublin Airport in 2025 – roughly the same as a full-size humpback whale.

Spirit sales were strong in duty free with a total of 409,000 litres of Irish whiskey sold and 133,000 litres of vodka.