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Cormac O'Shea

How to avoid queues and check busiest times in your local McDonald's in Ireland as drive-thrus reopen

All McDonald's drive-thrus in Ireland will open by the end of the week so you can get your fast-food fix.

Dublin restaurants saw huge queues, even impacting traffic, when they opened again last week.

Thankfully there is a quick and easy way to check how busy your local drive-thru is at any one time.

Google have a real time function on their search engine which lets you check how busy your local spot is.

The handy information is taken from people's phones if they have location enabled so that an estimation can be made as to how many people are in any one place.

Google records the info every hour a place is open and keeps a history, so you can see when your McDonald's is usually busy.

Of course with McDonald's restaurants being closed for so long, the history part may not be all that accurate - however the live bit should be useful.

To see this you simply Google the name or address of your local McDonald's, click on the Google Maps link for it and you will see a list of things including "popular times".

(McDonalds)

List of McDonald's open so far

The locations of the stores reopening as of 11am on Wednesday are:

  • Douglas Court Shopping Centre, Douglas Village, Co. Cork
  • 144 Bank Place, Mallow, Co. Cork
  • Mallow Road, Blackpool, Co. Cork
  • Unit 1, Riverside Mall, Midleton, Co. Cork
  • Old Fort Rd, off Main Street, Ballincollig, Co. Cork
  • Kinsale Road, Ballyphehane, Co. Cork
  • Headford Road Retail Park, Co. Galway
  • Westside Shopping Centre, Co. Galway
  • Manor West, Tralee, Co. Kerry
  • Park Road, Killarney, Co. Kerry
  • Moorefield, Newbridge, Co. Kildare
  • Carton Retail Park, Maynooth, Co. Kildare
  • Monread Road, Nass, Co. Kildare
  • The Kyle Centre, Portlaoise
  • Ashbourne Town Centre, Meath
  • Carrig Roundabout, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary
  • Junction 8, M8, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
  • Old Church Street, Tullamore
  • Cork Road, Co. Waterford
  • Sayer Lane Roundabout, Dungarvan, Co Waterford

The eight locations which reopened on Tuesday were:

  • Donaghmede Shopping Centre, Co Dublin
  • Drogheda, The Waterfront, Co Louth
  • Dundalk Drive Thru, Dundalk Shopping Centre, Co Louth
  • Swords Drive Thru, Airside Retail Park, Co. Dublin
  • Balbriggan Drive Thru, Millfield Shopping Centre, Co Dublin
  • Kilkenny Drive Thru, Hebron Road, Kilkenny
  • Dublin Airport Drive Thru, Corballis Road, Dublin
  • Carlow Drive Thru, Rathcrogue, Carlow

And the six which reopened in May were:

  • Nutgrove Shopping Centre, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14
  • Kylemore Road, Dublin 12
  • East Wall Road, East Wall, Dublin 3
  • Artane Castle Shopping Centre, Kilmore Road, Dublin 5
  • Coolock Retail Park, Malahide Road, Coolock, Dublin 17
  • Belgard Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24

More McDonald's restaurants are due to open on Thursday, June 4.

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