{"id":383406,"date":"2026-04-05T16:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:14:09","slug":"ireland-needs-more-bank-holidays-to-align-with-european-average-ogorman-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/383406\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland needs more bank holidays to align with European average, O&#8217;Gorman says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Government needs to introduce more bank holidays to align with the European average.<\/p>\n<p>Green Party leader, Roderic O&#8217;Gorman, is leading the call.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland currently has 10 bank holidays every year, behind the European average of 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Dublin West TD has suggested a number of options.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Newstalk, he said: &#8220;We think it&#8217;s a fair way to recognise the huge contribution of workers to the success of our economy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a number of options the Government could look at, confirming Good Friday as a bank holiday rather than the public holiday it is right now, where not everybody gets a day off on Good Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Or, alternatively, they could look at the first weekend of July and create a new summer bank holiday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government needs to introduce more bank holidays to align with the European average. Green Party leader, Roderic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-383406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383406","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=383406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}