Searched at Dublin Port?

[Pirahna]

Has anyone been searched at Dublin on entry to Ireland. Rules prohibit stuff like eggs, plants (salad), dairy, and I don't want to bin the contents of my fridge.

 

[G-RMPS]

Why break the law? It’s known.

 

[Winger]

There is a Spar shop on your way out of the port or is it a Centra, either way you will see it just off a roundabout, save you the worry of been searched

 

[Badknee]

We’re heading to Spain on Tuesday with an empty fridge, they do have shops everywhere now don’t take the chance of being upset

 

[TheBig1]

Yep searched, all tools unloaded, dog search inside and out, mirrors on sticks to look underneath, bonnet opened and questioned about our frequent visits. But that was several years ago

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[colyboy]

Badknee just sent you a pm.

Paul “Colyboy”

 

[dryad]

Has anyone been searched at Dublin on entry to Ireland. Rules prohibit stuff like eggs, plants (salad), dairy, and I don't want to bin the contents of my fridge.

i'd be tempted to eat it whilst travelling over on the ferry, no worries then..
yummy, yummy in your tummy..
.

 

[jongood]

Has anyone been searched at Dublin on entry to Ireland. Rules prohibit stuff like eggs, plants (salad), dairy, and I don't want to bin the contents of my fridge.

It was a media stunt. No doubt they could look in your fridge if they wanted too but they generally have better things to do.

We ve been twice through tunnel and once on Plymouth santander since the rules changed and the only thing they were interested in regarding the vehicle was pets and gas taps.

Tunnel last week wanted every bit of vaccination and test results etc even though it was all uploaded prior to arrival

 

[gus-lopez]

Has anyone been searched at Dublin on entry to Ireland. Rules prohibit stuff like eggs, plants (salad), dairy, and I don't want to bin the contents of my fridge.

You are travelling under the 'common travel area' regs for great britain . Different set of rules. Basically there aren't any. If there were we wouldn't have traveller problems.

 

[nicholsong]

Has anyone been searched at Dublin on entry to Ireland. Rules prohibit stuff like eggs, plants (salad), dairy, and I don't want to bin the contents of my fridge.

If to comply you are going to bin, it take the risk as the worst that can happen is that they bin it for you, so you are in the same position, but you may not be searched.

I personally think that they are not interested in amounts that you will consume yourself; the rule is to protect the residents. Also I think they are not fining people only confiscating, if at all.

Geoff

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[maison]

Several years ago we had just bought a property in France.

Travelling out via Dover port, packed to the roof with things for our new property, we were stopped by Customs who asked us if we had any knives on-board. We had a full set of cutlery, chef’s knives etc. My wife’s plaintiff response of,” Yes, but please don’t ask us to show you. They are at the bottom and it took me over an hour to pack the car” elicited a wry smile and a “Bon voyage” in response.

 

[HarryML7]

Personal Imports​

Bringing food into Ireland from outside the EU for your personal use​

There are certain foods that you cannot bring into Ireland if you are coming from outside the EU. This includes food that you:

• have in your luggage, or
• send to someone, or
• order remotely (for example, by mail, by telephone or via the Internet) and have delivered to you

Meat, milk and their products​

You cannot bring meat, milk or their products into the EU from countries outside the EU.

The only exception is for these products brought in from the Faeroe Islands, Greenland or Iceland, provided the combined weight is less than 10kg.

Powdered infant milk, infant food, and special foods or special pet feed required for medical reasons​

You can bring these foods if they weigh less than 2 kilograms and provided that:

• they do not require refrigeration before opening
• they are packaged proprietary brand products for direct sale to the final consumer, and
• the packaging is unbroken unless in current use

Fishery products​

This includes eviscerated fishery products and certain shellfish such as prawns, lobsters, dead mussels and dead oysters.

You can bring in or send to the EU a combined quantity which is less than 20kg (or the weight of one fish if this is higher).

There is no weight restriction if you are coming from the Faeroe Islands or Iceland.

Other animal products​

For example, honey, live oysters, live mussels and snails.

You can bring in up to 2 kilograms.

 

[Pirahna]

Just to update the thread:

I decided to empty the van of anything that would prompt further investigation in the event I were stopped. This was because I was using a Covid certificate I'd made myself. I saw 2 vans directed into the search shed, I went straight through. The bloke at passport control scanned the QR code on my NHS stuff and had a good long read of the negative Covid certificate, wish me a happy Christmas and that was that.

Now, the homemade Covid cert was a doctored copy of a genuine one I'd used earlier in the year. The whole"fit to fly" test thing is now beyond a joke. It's nothing more than a money making exercise. I could have got a genuine one by taking a test at a house and having the thing printed there and then. Another recognised offering is for £20 I order a test kit then send a picture of the negative tests alongside my passport.

Even if I'd followed the rules, Omicron is now spreading so quickly all a negative tests means is that I didn't have it 48 or 72 hours (depending on lateral flow or PCR) before I travelled.

Not wishing to pass anything on to my family I did a lateral flow test before setting off and another on arrival. Both were negative obvs.

 

[Nanniemate]

If the worst happens they confiscate your food, prosecute and stamp SMUGGLER on your passport

all this for a sandwich and half a pint of milk

Go for it, there are no shops in Ireland only pubs selling Guinness

 

[Pirahna]

Stuff

Reading and comprehension not your strong point?

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[gus-lopez]

Personal Imports​

Bringing food into Ireland from outside the EU for your personal use​

There are certain foods that you cannot bring into Ireland if you are coming from outside the EU. This includes food that you:

• have in your luggage, or
• send to someone, or
• order remotely (for example, by mail, by telephone or via the Internet) and have delivered to you

Meat, milk and their products​

You cannot bring meat, milk or their products into the EU from countries outside the EU.

The only exception is for these products brought in from the Faeroe Islands, Greenland or Iceland, provided the combined weight is less than 10kg.

Powdered infant milk, infant food, and special foods or special pet feed required for medical reasons​

You can bring these foods if they weigh less than 2 kilograms and provided that:

• they do not require refrigeration before opening
• they are packaged proprietary brand products for direct sale to the final consumer, and
• the packaging is unbroken unless in current use

Fishery products​

This includes eviscerated fishery products and certain shellfish such as prawns, lobsters, dead mussels and dead oysters.

You can bring in or send to the EU a combined quantity which is less than 20kg (or the weight of one fish if this is higher).

There is no weight restriction if you are coming from the Faeroe Islands or Iceland.

Other animal products​

For example, honey, live oysters, live mussels and snails.

You can bring in up to 2 kilograms.

None of which applies as the 'Common Travel Area' takes precedence.

 

[HarryML7]

None of which applies as the 'Common Travel Area' takes precedence.

CTA applies to people not goods.

 

[Northernraider]

No one is bored enough to search your fridge. If they do simply don't have it in the fridge lots of other places to put it lol.

Its a stupid pointless rule in the first place . Our food standards haven't changed since leaving EU.

 

[PG’s trips]

If stopped, which is highly unlikely, tell them you are travelling to NI. There are no restrictions on thousands of ROI customers buying their eggs or anything else for that matter every week in the supermarkets that are in NI and travelling freely across the border. Added to that it’s a lot cheaper in NI.

 

[HarryML7]

No one is bored enough to search your fridge. If they do simply don't have it in the fridge lots of other places to put it lol.

Its a stupid pointless rule in the first place . Our food standards haven't changed since leaving EU.

Standards are changing, Last May Michael Gove guaranteed food produced to lower standards would not enter the UK, this week, the government has signed a 3 year deal allowing tariff free imported cane sugar, grown with 20 products banned in the UK (EU) from use in growing sugar beet.

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