Getting to Dublin Airport
There is no train and no tram to Dublin Airport. What there is instead, and where the rail network can take you first.
There is no rail or tram link to Dublin Airport: a Dublin Express coach at the terminal Photo: CAPTAIN RAJU, CC0.
No railway serves Dublin Airport
This is the single most common wrong assumption about transport in Dublin, so here it is without hedging: no Luas line, no DART and no commuter train goes to Dublin Airport. The airport is reached by road only.
MetroLink (Swords – Dublin Airport – Charlemont) is a project, not a railway: the Government approved it to proceed to detailed tender stage and TII has appointed a programme delivery partner. Nothing is in service.
Iarnód Éireann does not pretend otherwise either. On its own airport-connections page it sells coach add-ons rather than a rail link: Iarnrod Eireann sells coach add-ons instead: Dublin Express route 782 from outside Heuston station (beside the Luas stop) to Terminals 1 and 2, from EUR 8, about 30 minutes via the Port Tunnel, and Aircoach from EUR 6. These are buses, not trains.
We do not publish coach timetables or prices beyond what the railway operator states on that page, and we do not recommend one operator over another. Check the coach operator directly before you travel; the detail above was read on 2026-10-20.
Where the rail network does take you
| Station | Lines | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Dublin Connolly | DART Northern South Eastern South Western Western | The usual arrival point from the north and from Belfast; the Luas Red Line stop called Connolly is a two-minute walk away. |
| Dublin Heuston | South Western | The arrival point from Cork, Galway, Limerick and the south west; the Luas Red Line stop called Heuston is beside it. |
| Dublin Pearse | DART Northern South Eastern South Western | The most central rail station, in the middle of the south city. |
Coaches to the airport run from the city centre, and the railway operator’s own page names a service leaving from outside Heuston station, beside the Luas stop. So in practice the rail network gets you into the city and the road network takes you out to the airport.
MetroLink, which does not exist yet
MetroLink (Swords – Dublin Airport – Charlemont) is a project, not a railway: the Government approved it to proceed to detailed tender stage and TII has appointed a programme delivery partner. Nothing is in service.
Until it opens, nothing on this site will describe a rail connection to the airport, because there is not one.