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.

Victor

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

Not necessarily. Luke Doc is now located to Clonskeagh Hospital, it was previously in The Meath Primary Care Centre (former Meath Hospital). Neither location could justify an overnight pharmacist.

retalivity

Park's late night pharmacy on Dorset St open til 10pm 7 nights a week.

10pm seems to be the universal cutoff

https://maps.app.goo.gl/MKM5srpdbNAEqU1P6

miamee

I thought Boots in Roselawn (Blanchardstown) was open until midnight so googled. It used to be pre-covid (or maybe earlier) with a hatch rather than the full shop open but it seems to only be open until 10pm on weekdays now the same as other pharmacies suggested already.

Caranica

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122166075#Comment_122166075

That one was open until midnight because Tesco used to be too. Now it closes at 10 so the pharmacy does too.

Charles Babbage

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122052767#Comment_122052767

The government should intervene in the market in this type of case. Provide insurance for the pharmacy open on the rota. How hard can it be? And in a small way it could triage people going to A&E.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122167590#Comment_122167590

There's a huge potential for pharmacies to be given some minor dispensing powers (and also make a few more medicines non prescription; albeit we have significantly caught up with the UK in that recently); but the GP unions are vehemently against it as it would reduce the easy/quick paying visits.

The split payer system causes so, so much waste.