The incident took place before 7am local time, according to BBC journalist Declan Harvey who, conveniently, was on the plane the passenger was frantically trying to chase down.
"A late passenger has been pinned to the ground by @DublinAirport police after running out of the terminal towards the plane pleading and shouting at the pilot to wait," he tweeted.
"Moments earlier he'd been inside banging on the window of the terminal asking ground crew to hold the plane. He somehow made it out to the Ryanair aircraft which was taxiing. When police arrived there was a scuffle and he was pinned to the tarmac."
An airport spokesman told The Guardian the passenger, a man in his 20s, had arrived at the gate with a woman.
"They were engaging with Ryanair staff at the gate and the male passenger was becoming agitated," the spokesman said.
"(The male) was initially restrained by Ryanair staff on the apron and airport police, who had already been contacted, arrived on the scene almost immediately and arrested him.
"He was taken to the Airport Police Station and will be handed over to the Gardai."
The man's antics reportedly did not stop there. A local reporter attending his court hearing on Thursday tweeted: "The man charged with chasing a plane down at Dublin Airport this morning has flashed his backside at photographers and journalists waiting outside court."
