The next Irish bank holiday

The run of them, from here

Every Irish public holiday from 11 August 2026 to the end of 2030, resolved from the statutory rules rather than from a stored list:

Why so many of them are Mondays

26 of the 43 above fall on a Monday, and that is not luck. Five of the ten Irish public holidays are defined as a Monday — the first Monday in May, June, August and February, and the last Monday in October — and Easter Monday is a sixth by construction. Only four are fixed calendar dates that can land anywhere: New Year’s Day, St Patrick’s Day, Christmas Day and St Stephen’s Day.

So the long-weekend question really only ever concerns those four, and the answer for each of them is different every year.

The ones that fall at a weekend

They do not move. There is no substitute Monday in Irish law — the Second Schedule provides none, and section 21(1) of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 gives the employer a choice of four ways to meet the entitlement rather than a guaranteed day off. That is the mechanism that absorbs a weekend holiday, and it is worth understanding before you assume you have lost a day.

Good Friday is not one of them

It is the single most common misconception about this calendar. Good Friday is not in the Second Schedule, is not prescribed by any instrument made under paragraph 1(g), and is not a public holiday in the State. A great many businesses close, and schools are generally off — that is custom and contract, not entitlement. Easter Monday is the public holiday, and it is in the table above.

How this page stays right

It has no dates in it. Every row above is computed when the page is built by evaluating the rules in this site’s payload, each of which carries the provision it comes from. The same rules produce the 2026 calendar, the 2027 one, and the public-holiday deductions in the date difference calculator. Three pages, one source, no possibility of them disagreeing.