Dublin Airport Security Monday morning

Some of the UK airports have (I dunno what they are called, but I think of them as some kind of idiot police, not police who are idiots, but people who police idiots) who come down through the top of the queue and tell people to remove belt, throw water in the bin, take laptop out of bag etc before you even get to the actual scanning area. They would be quite aggressive about it too, not exactly polite, but wouldn't really have an issue there, if people weren't so fcuking stupid, they wouldn't have to be there in the first place, and as jobs go, it must be an unbelievably frustrating one to just repeating 3 or 4 of the same questions for 8 hours a day or whatever. 

Really dont think so but you can access terminal 2 from terminal 1 easily enough.

Get through security, hang a left and keep walking following the US immigration signs and passed the etihad lounges etc. you then have to turn right at the end of the corridor, take the lift to T2 departures/shopping. Job done. 

Haven't tried it myself but I'd imagine that if you tried scanning the barcode on your boarding pass at the barriers that you need to pass through to get to security, it wouldn't work anyway or else one of the staff there who actually do the scanning (what an exciting job that must be ) would direct you to T1.

 

As  McG says though, once you have cleared security, you can get to T2 by turning left and following the signs for gate numbers starting with 4, it's about a 5-minute walk.  I've had to do it myself a few times but in the opposite direction for Aer Lingus flights that have had no gates available at T2.

Would prefer to eat in the Slaney bar rather than Marquette, bit less hectic and enjoy sitting there watching the planes come in

Think I'll just have to do that alright, I could've sworn when I worked there they said you could do it but not really worth the risk to save five mins.