Can I go through transfers with separate tickets/airlines?

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The answer is the same either way, for two reasons:

  1. The UK and Ireland share a Common Travel Area, similar to but entirely separate from Schengen. If you arrive in either country, bound for the other, you clear immigration in the first country of arrival. In your case, you will clear immigration in Dublin, regardless of which airline you use or whether you have separate tickets.
  2. Dublin Airport, unlike virtually every other airport in Europe, does not have sterile international transit. Everyone who arrives at Dublin, even in transit to a country outside the Common Travel Area, must pass through passport control (with a minor exception you aren't likely to see).

As for connection times, you're flying Ryanair, and you may have to change terminals. If your flight is late, or you are late and miss it for some reason, you are responsible for the costs. If this might be a problem for you, I'd allow plenty of connection time (e.g. 2 hours or more), or book a single ticket, and/or fly through a different airport. You can almost certainly get away with a shorter connection, but it does get risky. For an EU national, an hour or less is certainly possible if all goes well. If all doesn't go well, you could lose a lot of money.

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