It’s the first public holiday to be named for a woman, a Christian saint of course, and marks the traditional start of the Celtic New Year." Ireland will now have ten official bank holidays ...

The day honoured Ireland’s patron saint with parades ... Christmas Day, will be the next public holiday, and will fall on Thursday, December 25. Finally, the last public holiday of the year ...

At the time of writing, the next bank holiday is Good Friday, which falls on Friday, April 18 in 2025. That long weekend will ...

While the four nations of the UK share some bank holidays, Scotland and Northern Ireland have a couple of different ones to England and Wales. It’s not just the UK that has public holidays though.