Passengers who were caught up in the Dublin Airport queueing chaos over the weekend have said that bags were being swabbed "a few times".
Some of those running for flights were apparently stopped by security personnel past the shopping areas in the Terminal buildings.
Sarah Gilligan and her fiancee arrived at the airport at 6am on Sunday, but they unfortunately missed their flight due to the lengthy queues.
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She told Claire Byrne Live that she saw security personnel checking bags past the shopping area in the Terminal building.
"We managed to almost get our flight," Sarah said.
"When we got to security, my fiancee's bag got through and he ran to the gate. I told him to tell Ryanair to please wait.
"They decided to swab my bag. So the three people in front me and the four people behind me, we got a double security check which we thought was unusual considering security was taking so long anyway.
"Everyone around me was running, crying panicking.
"One thing I didn't hear about on the news was that when you got past the shops, there two people spot checking and swabbing more bags and more people. I saw them stop people as they were running so that was a little bit crazy."
Chris O'Brien was flying back to England on Sunday after visiting Dublin for a wedding.
He also said that his bags were "swabbed a few times."
He told Claire Byrne Live: "We had to run to the gate, Ryanair told us we had literally a couple of minutes to get there.
"As the lady said there, we got swabbed a few times, not just once.
"There was no reason for them to keep swabbing our bags, they were just delaying things. We were sweating and panicking.
"It just wasn't a nice experience."
Pat Byrne, founder and chair of Irish airline CityJet, has said that the "real issue" is the "labour-intensive passenger screening that we're doing 21 years on since 9/11".
He said on Newstalk: "There are alternate methods to that - profile screening - but there's no political will across the group-think of governments around the world to introduce it, because they fear they'd be accused of discrimination".
He said that the current system in place 21 years after 9/11 is "absolutely insane".
"I'm talking about more random testing, higher quality - higher resolution - x-ray machines, like they've introduced at Shannon, where you don't have to take your liquids out of the bag," he said.
"Using cognitive skills to look at people: it's not colour - it's body language, it's posture.
"There are a lot of things that scientific people know about, but it is not being introduced and it's not being trialled because of the fear of discrimination accusations".
Dublin Live has contacted daa for comment.
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