{"id":383000,"date":"2026-04-05T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383000\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:13:09","slug":"push-for-ireland-to-introduce-three-more-bank-holidays-in-line-with-eu-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383000\/","title":{"rendered":"Push for Ireland to introduce three more bank holidays in line with EU neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands are only countries with fewer days\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Green Party leader Roderic O\u2019Gorman supports an additional bank holiday. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2.78404309.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Green Party leader Roderic O\u2019Gorman supports an additional bank holiday. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Government is facing calls to introduce more bank holidays, with two opposition parties saying people should be given more time off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland has 10 public holiday days each year, but the European average is 12. Cyprus has the most public holidays with 15 every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands are only countries with fewer days Green Party leader Roderic O\u2019Gorman supports an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9484,2045,72,23881,3025,2244,895,292,8934,61,60,5151,48241,35727],"class_list":{"0":"post-383000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-christmas","9":"tag-billy-kelleher","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-danny-healy-rae","12":"tag-denmark","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-fianna-fail","15":"tag-germany","16":"tag-green-party","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-netherlands","20":"tag-people-before-profit","21":"tag-wayne-oconnor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}