Dublin Airport has a large number of licences, all bar one easily accessible either to the public, or for the cost of a 9.99 flight somewhere - the Aer Lingus Lounge is another bit on top of that if you haven't got Aerclub status.
Roughly they seem to be organised so that each operator has one licence per terminal - so Wrights have one for T1 and one for T2, the DAA have one for each, SSP have one for each and so on.
The first I visited before a flight on Saturday was the Gate Clock at the 300 gates - I assumed my flight would be going from there, and it was before the gate was shown on the screens. This often isn't open, but the licence is shared with Alcock & Brown in the land-side court and Leopold at the 100 gates. The licence file also covers the now gone bar in the 200 gates. The Gate Clock is a bit run-down and has a fairly normal selection of drinks on offer - it would have been significantly busier in the pre-T2 days when all "premium" flights operated from these gates.
After the publication of the gate, which was actually in the 200 area, a short delay to the inbound flight allowed me to grab a pint in the new Marquette area which has replaced a number of retail units in what was called "The Street" many years ago. There are two sides to this - a large food area with various options and a large bar that seems to heavily promote having prosecco on tap over and above anything else. One fairly poor pint of Galway Hooker later and it was time to head to Amsterdam.
Looking up the licence numbers for these showed that I'd missed two licences when passing through for ones I'd done - 1001965, the general DAA licence that covers the refreshment stands that sell alcohol for T2 (sneaky pint before a flight to Leeds during the time I'm blogging) and N2051 which is the Garden Terrace bar in T1X (many, many times before T2 opened)
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