Originally Posted by
NWIFlyer
With respect, there are several people on here with very recent experience of the security queues at DUB. One of mine is after your end-June date. It's not so much that security is fully manned, it's that (a) Fast Track has been sold to all and sundry, including seemingly half the FR passengers, so it's not uncommon to take 10 minutes just to reach the boarding pass podium check and (b) DUB still shoves 50% of bags to secondary for reasons best known only to itself, which it most certainly is not staffed to cope with. Even if your bag isn't sent there, you'll be stuck behind everyone else that's suffered that fate.
Yes, you might hit lucky and saunter through in minutes - but there's a better than even chance that you won't. My last experience was 20 minutes to get through the queue, plus another 5 waiting for one of my bags (which only had clothes in, go figure) to clear secondary.
The time prior to that, in TP J, I didn't have Fast Track access, and at 5.30am it took 45 minutes to go through the standard security.
The potential for missing your flight, and potentially having to buy another long-haul ticket, is extremely high, certainly way beyond most people's appetite for risk.
Yes, but all of that being said, each person's experience will be completely different. I regularly go through Dublin, as you seem to as well, and I can only base my advice on my experience on a personal level. I've never had a bag go through secondary, so perhaps there is something with what you're doing/the type of bag you have/etc that makes you get this on a frequent basis. Who knows! I certainly can't speak to a reason why.
I've also managed to avoid the Fast-Track queues full of Ryanair passengers that you mention.
I have had 45 minutes wait through standard security, but I didn't mention that as that was in T2 which is irrelevant to the OPs question. My comments stand based on my personal experience in terminal 1. I would not randomly advise someone to do it if I thought they were going to be hamstrung by my advice.
Either way, we don't know how long the OP has between flights or even when the travel is to take place. If it's quite far into the future, it's all a moot point really.