Pharmacy Open Near Me: Check Hours, Late & 24-Hour Cover

Community pharmacies: approximately 1,912 to 1,919 (GetYourGP, pharmacy access guide) · Pharmacies open on Sundays: 377 nationally (Pharmacy Times Ireland (Sunday listing)) · Latest closing named: midnight daily, Vista Pharmacy, Naas (Pharmacy Times Ireland (late-night listing)) · HSE Live freephone on Sundays: closed (GetYourGP, pharmacy access guide)

Seven facts, one pattern: the national picture is heavy on counts and light on verified hours, so the phone call does most of the work.

Which pharmacies near me are open right now?

No public body publishes live pharmacy hours in Ireland, so an “open now” badge is only as reliable as the directory behind it. The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) keeps the statutory register of pharmacies legally trading, searchable by name or town, but that register does not publish opening hours (GetYourGP, pharmacy access guide).

Use the register to confirm a pharmacy is registered, use a directory to sort by distance, and use the branch’s own phone line to confirm the hours.

How do I sort pharmacies by distance?

1. Turn on location services or enter your postcode, then sort the results by distance.
2. Open the top three listings and read the hours inside each one, not only the open or closed label.
3. Treat any “open” label as a prompt to phone, not as a promise.

Can I call a pharmacy to confirm it is open before I travel?

• Yes, and the call is the only check that reflects the branch’s own schedule.
• Hours are set by each pharmacy, and travellers are advised to phone ahead (GetYourGP, pharmacy access guide).

The catch: a listing is a copy of someone else’s hours, and only the branch can change them. Phone first, then travel.

Which late night pharmacies stay open past 10 PM?

Late hours in Ireland are patchy, and the listings disagree on who closes latest. Pharmacy Times Ireland’s late-night listing names Vista Pharmacy in Naas, Co. Kildare as open until midnight every day and calls it the latest-closing pharmacy in Ireland (Pharmacy Times Ireland, late-night listing). The same listing counts 106 pharmacies open past 9pm (Pharmacy Times Ireland, late-night listing).

Which Dublin pharmacies list hours after 7 PM?

• Rathgar Late Night Pharmacy, 1 Terenure Road East, Dublin 6, opens Sunday 10:00–21:00, according to DocOnCall’s Dublin guide, checked 2026-09-24 (DocOnCall, Dublin late-night guide).
• Hickey’s Pharmacies lists Phibsboro, Harolds Cross, O’Connell Street and Ongar among its late-night branches but publishes no hours on that page (Hickey’s Pharmacies, late-night branch page).
• According to DocOnCall, Hickey’s O’Connell Street and Boots Henry Street once marketed themselves as 24-hour, but published hours have varied in recent years (DocOnCall, Dublin late-night guide).

How do I confirm late hours before leaving?

1. Phone the branch shortly before you leave, not the morning of the trip.
2. Ask for today’s closing time, and for tomorrow’s if you plan a return trip.
3. Ask whether the late hours apply on Sundays and public holidays.

What this means: a dated listing tells you the hours on that date, not the hours tonight.

Are there 24-hour pharmacies in Ireland?

Not in the sense most travellers mean. According to Pharmacy Times Ireland’s 24-hour guide, no pharmacy in Ireland is open all night (Pharmacy Times Ireland, 24-hour guide), and PharmacyNearMe.ie says true 24-hour retail pharmacies do not exist in Ireland (PharmacyNearMe.ie (24-hour guide)).

According to DocOnCall, genuine 24-hour pharmacies are rare and concentrated in a handful of Dublin city-centre and shopping-centre locations (DocOnCall (pharmacy coverage guide)).

Are Sunday hours different from weekday hours?

• Pharmacy Times Ireland’s national Sunday listing counts 377 pharmacies open on Sundays and recommends calling ahead (Pharmacy Times Ireland, Sunday listing).
• McCormacks Pharmacy says every store keeps Sunday hours on bank holidays, while most of its stores are closed on Sundays (McCormacks Pharmacy, store locator).
• The HSE Live freephone 1800 700 700 is closed on Sundays, so it is not a late-night fallback (GetYourGP, pharmacy access guide).

Do 24-hour pharmacies stay open every day?

• According to PharmacyNearMe.ie, St James’s Hospital, Mater Hospital and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin operate round-the-clock pharmacies for in-patients and ED patients (PharmacyNearMe.ie, 24-hour guide).
• According to PharmacyNearMe.ie, its weekend directory lists 1,073 pharmacies with weekend hours, updated daily (PharmacyNearMe.ie (weekend directory)).

What this means: a hospital pharmacy is a route for patients already in that hospital’s care, not a general fallback for everyone.

Where are Life Pharmacy branches in Ireland?

Our verified sources do not include a Life Pharmacy branch list, so this guide cannot confirm which Life Pharmacy stores are open in a given town. The chain’s own branch information and the branch phone line are the route to a verified answer.

Which Life Pharmacy locations are in Dublin 1 and Donabate?

• No verified Dublin 1 or Donabate branch address or hours appeared in our sources.
• Check the branch’s own information or phone the pharmacy before you travel.
• Hours are set by each pharmacy, so one branch’s schedule does not describe another’s (GetYourGP, pharmacy access guide).

Is there a Life Pharmacy in Athy?

• Our sources do not confirm an Athy branch.
• Search by town, then confirm that branch’s hours by phone before you set out.

The catch: a chain name tells you a shop exists somewhere, not that the one nearest you is open.

What should I do if no nearby pharmacy is open?

Start with the services that can treat you. According to Pharmacy Times Ireland’s 24-hour guide, contact the GP out-of-hours service or the nearest A&E for urgent medicine outside pharmacy hours, and call 112 or 999 in an emergency (Pharmacy Times Ireland, 24-hour guide).

Who should I call for urgent out-of-hours care?

• The GP out-of-hours service, for urgent medicine when your usual pharmacy is closed (Pharmacy Times Ireland, 24-hour guide).
• The nearest A&E, when the need is urgent and no GP route is available (Pharmacy Times Ireland, 24-hour guide).
• The HSE Live freephone is open Monday to Friday 8am–8pm and Saturday 9am–5pm, and is closed on Sundays, so it is not a late-night option (GetYourGP, pharmacy access guide).

When should I call 112 or 999?

• Call 112 or 999 in an emergency, as Pharmacy Times Ireland’s guide advises (Pharmacy Times Ireland, 24-hour guide).
• Use these numbers when someone’s life or safety is at risk, not for a missing prescription.
• Our verified sources do not include the out-of-hours GP number, so check it with your GP or the HSE before you need it.

The implication: a closed pharmacy is a question of which service to call, not whether any care exists.

Listed hours at a glance

Eight listings, one pattern: the latest closing times come from directory snapshots, not from a schedule anyone publishes for the whole country.

What this means: the latest closing times are the ones to phone first, because they are the least backed by a national schedule.

Confirmed facts and what’s unclear

The trade-off: the confirmed list is short, so the unclear list is the one to plan around.

What the publishers say

“There is no statutory late-night pharmacy rota here.”

GetYourGP editorial (pharmacy access guide)

“Genuine 24-hour pharmacies are rare outside Dublin, and even in the capital they are concentrated in a handful of city-centre and shopping-centre locations.”

DocOnCall editorial (pharmacy coverage guide)

“No pharmacy in Ireland is open all night.”

Pharmacy Times Ireland editorial (24-hour guide)

“True 24-hour retail pharmacies don’t exist in Ireland.”

PharmacyNearMe.ie editorial (24-hour guide)

The pattern: the publishers agree that no Irish pharmacy is open around the clock, but they disagree on who closes latest, so trust the agreement and verify the rest.

Before you set out

The real problem is not that pharmacies are scarce, but that listed hours are the weakest part of every search result. GetYourGP reports that Ireland has no statutory late-night or Sunday duty rota, so no single listing can promise that a shop will be open when you arrive (GetYourGP, pharmacy access guide). A traveller in Ireland on a Sunday evening who skips the phone call risks a closed door, so phone the branch before leaving or plan from the start around the GP out-of-hours service and A&E.

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