Missing a flight can be upsetting, but it doesn’t usually land you in court.
But that is where a man in his 20s found himself this morning after running rampage outside a closed boarding gate at Dublin Airport around 7.20am.
Video footage shows him shirtless throwing chairs and stools around a section of Terminal 1 used for short-haul flights by budget airlines like Ryanair.
Wearing a mask over his face, the man – who has not been named – is believed to have been ‘intoxicated’.
At one point, he lifted a wooden barrel, used as a café table, above his head and threw it at the glass partition of a moving walkway.
In another clip, the man kicked the wall before climbing onto a chair and in an attempt to rip off part of a desk at boarding gate 107.
‘There are smashed glasses over there as well’, a woman could be heard saying.
He then picked up an item, waved at a seated man to signal him to move, and then threw the object at the chairs. He proceeded to tear apart more airport furniture.
With their own flights to catch, many people strolled past, luggage in tow, seemingly unperturbed.
‘We hope… we never see him at Dublin Airport again’, a spokesperson for Dublin Airport Authority said.
‘Airport Police at Dublin Airport responded to an incident in Terminal 1 this morning which resulted in a male individual being arrested.
‘The passenger missed his flight and proceeded to cause significant damage to our airport.
‘The individual was quickly apprehended by Airport Police before being subsequently arrested by An Garda Síochána and is scheduled to appear in court later today.
‘We hope the justice system deals with him appropriately and also that we never see him at Dublin Airport again.’
A police spokesperson said: ‘Gardaí have arrested a man in connection with incidents of criminal damage in Terminal 1, Dublin Airport, this morning, Monday, March 17, 2025.
‘The man, aged in his 20s, has been charged and is due to appear before Court 2 of the Criminal Courts of Justice Dublin, this morning.’
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