{"id":662256,"date":"2026-10-22T16:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662256\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:56:15","slug":"clocks-change-ireland-2026-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/662256\/","title":{"rendered":"Clocks change Ireland 2026: Everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/entertainment\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Onic Entertainment<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/635bbd6da79d1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    (via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            People will be able to enjoy an extra hour in bed this weekend as the clocks go back for winter.\n        <\/p>\n<p>The annual clock change will take place in the early hours of Sunday, October 25, 2026, marking the end of Summer Time.<\/p>\n<p>At 2am on Sunday morning, clocks will go back one hour to 1am, giving people an extra 60 minutes in bed.<\/p>\n<p>The change means mornings will become brighter, but evenings will get darker earlier as Ireland moves into the winter months.<\/p>\n<p>Remembering the old saying &#8216;spring forward, fall back&#8217; can help you keep track of which way to change your clocks.<\/p>\n<p>Daylight saving time began in Ireland at 1am on Sunday, March 29, 2026, when clocks moved forward by one hour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ada2574227955bd75b.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Under current EU rules, clocks in member states move back one hour on the last Sunday in October and forward on the last Sunday in March.<\/p>\n<p>This is despite the fact that, on March 26, 2019, the European Parliament voted in favour of ending seasonal clock changes, with a proposal to allow member states to choose between permanent summer time and permanent winter time.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal was intended to put an end to the twice-yearly practice, following an EU-wide public consultation in which the majority of respondents supported scrapping the clock change.<\/p>\n<p>However, the plans have not been implemented, and the seasonal clock changes remain in place.<\/p>\n<p>The practice of changing the clocks was introduced during the First World War as a way of saving energy by making better use of daylight during the summer months.<\/p>\n<p>With the clocks going back this weekend, people across Ireland can look forward to an extra hour in bed although the earlier sunsets will be a reminder that winter is on the way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792688175_625_68da98f76f434.png\" style=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Onic Entertainment (via Getty Images) People will be able to enjoy an extra hour in bed this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,608,611,607,610,609,612,43],"class_list":["post-662256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-radio","tag-limerick-today","tag-limericks-live95fm","tag-live-95","tag-live95fm","tag-live95fm-homepage","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662256","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=662256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}