Gate 100 side of T1, this is your last-minute grab
By the 100 Gates in Dublin Airport T1, this WHSmith opens early at 04:00 and runs through to 22:00 every day, so it catches both the first Ryanair departures and late-night returns. It sits post-security, near the low-cost carriers, so you can duck in after passport control without backtracking.
Expect the usual WHSmith mix: bottled drinks around €2-€4, crisps and chocolate multipacks, prepacked sandwiches, paperbacks, magazines, and basic travel bits like EU plug adapters and charging cables. Prices run higher than city centre shops, but in line with other DUB terminal stores, and you can often grab meal deals that soften the blow a bit.
Staff usually keep the snack fridges and chillers stocked through the afternoon wave of flights around 13:00-16:00, but fresh sandwiches and wraps thin out after 20:00, so evening departures may find only crisps and sweets left. Newspapers and daily magazines are most complete before 10:00, after the first big rush clears the shelves.
You won’t find hot food or barista coffee here; that lives in nearby cafés further along the 100 Gates pier. Treat this as a fast grab-and-go stop for reading material, snacks for a sub-two-hour hop, or an emergency cable minutes before boarding at a nearby gate like 108.
Tip: hit this WHSmith right after security in T1’s 100 Gates corridor rather than “later” on the walk; queues spike to 5–10 minutes just before the 06:30–07:30 departure bank.