We love our bank holidays in Ireland, but where did they come from, who gets to decide when they are - and when's the next ...

KILDARE, Ireland (AP) — St. Patrick has long received the attention and the big parades, but another patron saint of Ireland is making a 21st century comeback. St. Brigid of Kildare, a younger ...

Ireland has 10 bank holidays in total this year, and the next one to mark St Brigid's Day is just around the corner.

As 2026 edges ever closer many of us will will be thinking about how best to plan our annual leave around Bank Holidays. Ireland is set to observe the same number of Bank Holidays in 2026 as it did in ...

IF YOU’RE already looking forward to your next holiday as Christmas winds down, here are all of Ireland’s bank holidays in 2026. Our 10 bank holidays next year include an extra “substitute day”, as ...

For the first time this year, Ireland is observing a public holiday in honor of St. Brigid’s Day and Imbolc, an ancient pagan holy day associated with the goddess Brigid and heralding the coming of ...