What is the latest opening time for a pharmacy in Dublin?

gaiscioch

I went to the out-of-hours doctor last night, Saturday, (Eastdoc/St Vincent's) and I was told there were only two pharmacies opened late in Dublin (south Dublin?) and they were open only until 10pm - one in Leonard's Corner and one on the Long Mile Road. As it happens, there is only one pharmacy open at the weekend until 10pm, the Long Mile Road Pharmacy.

1. Long Mile Road Pharmacy: open 8am until 10pm 7 days per week, 1 Long Mile Road,
   Walkinstown, Dublin 12, D12 F768 ( https://www.longmileroadpharmacy.com/ )
2. Leonard's Corner Pharmacy, 106 South Circular Road,
   https://www.pharmacyconnect.ie/leonard-s-corner-pharmacy-limited/ Mon - Fri: 9.00am – 10.00pm | Sat & Sun: 9.30am – 6.00pm

Surely there must be a pharmacy in the entire city/county which is open later than 10pm? If you know of one, please list its name and opening hours here.

mazdamiatamx5

genuinely don't think there is.

This site is a good resource though not sure if updated regularly:

https://www.dublin1850.com/24hrdublin.html

markpb

There used to be 24h pharmacies in Dublin but apparently insurance costs, presumably because of the risk to staff, were too high and they all stopped.

There were a few with decent opening hours (Rockfield @ Balally Luas used to be 7am-10pm 365 days a year) but post-Covid they all reduced their opening hours.

The government view them as a private service so they don’t care and wont intervene. If you’re really sick, you can go clog up an ED and get out-of-hours drugs there. There’s literally no other way.

L1011

I believe the business insurance for a pharmacy open after ~10 is tortuously expensive; and this is why they've basically vanished. There are small towns in Europe where there's a rota and a single pharmacy open 24/7 at any given time but it seems impossible here.

Last 24h pharmacy in Dublin was in a building with its own police force - T1 in the airport. Long gone now.

If you can drive, the Vista pharmacy in Naas opens til midnight 7 days.

Cienciano

Really annoying when you're looking for one, the green cross light is on and flashing but they're closed

loyatemu

the out of hours GP services are all in hospitals, surely they could have a pharmacy open there for patients, presumably there is a pharmacist on duty anyway?

Gloomtastic!

For northsiders, Corrigans Pharmacy on the Malahide Road is open til 10pm six days a week and 7:30pm on Sundays

tom1ie

all care pharmacy at the KCR in kimmage opens from 9am- 9pm mon- sat and 12-6 Sunday but aside from that I don’t know another one open late bar the two mentioned above.

markpb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122052881#Comment_122052881

They just privately rent rooms from the hospital, they are sadly nothing to do with the hospital itself.