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St Patrick's Day - Long weekend?

  • 17-03-2010 11:39am
    #1
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭


    St Patrick's Day, a national holiday on a Wednesday how awkward is that? If they want to really promote St Patrick's Day as a proper festival and build tourism for the ocassion should it not be on a Monday every year and make a proper long week-end out of it. Say the Monday nearest/just before the 17th in case it clashes with a very early Easter.

    Should St. Patrick's day be moved to a Monday? 36 votes

    Yes, make it a long week-end every year.
    0% 0 votes
    No, leave it alone
    44% 16 votes
    Meh, who cares we all go sick before or after anyway
    55% 20 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Pittens
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭Pittens


    totally agree. Cant agree more. Wednesday is useless for people without vacation built up, and a paid for businesses where people take 5 days off, for two holidays. Wrong time of year anyway.


  • #3
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    But if it's on a Wednesday the tourists will be more likely to stay through the weekend, so they'll be here longer.


    You just want a 3 day weekend.


  • #4
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    you will still have to go to work on tuesday . St Patricks day should be on a Friday

    Long weekend baby


  • #5
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Grand to get a day off but yeah I'd defo prefer it to be a Monday or a Friday every time.


  • #6
    wylo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭wylo


    Its nice to have a long weekend, but thats a ridiculous suggestion, it would mean we'd be all in work for paddys day which would completely take away from it being a public holiday.


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  • #7
    WIZE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,597 ✭✭✭WIZE


    You would kinda have to change it all over the World really :rolleyes:


  • #8
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    wylo wrote: »
    Its nice to have a long weekend, but thats a ridiculous suggestion, it would mean we'd be all in work for paddys day which would completely take away from it being a public holiday.

    Perhaps if on years when it occurs on a Wednesday we could cancel Easter and transfer the 2x days we get for that back to March in order to make a nice long 5day break of it.

    That'd be ok with me.


  • #9
    Larianne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    A lot of American cities celebrate it on the Sunday before the 17th.


  • #10
    tipperaryboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 952 ✭✭✭tipperaryboy


    Should be on a Friday.


  • #11
    G-Money
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,199 ✭✭✭G-Money


    I've always said that St Patricks day should be a 2 day holiday as let's be honest, the day after, tons of people need the day off to get rid of the hangover. It's a bit like giving people New years eve off and expecting them in New years day.


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  • #12
    445279.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,978 ✭✭✭445279.ie


    nah, leave it. Loved having a break midweek and was able to stay in bed till noon :D

    And back tomorrow and only 2 days to the weekend


  • #13
    dsmythy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,528 ✭✭✭✭dsmythy


    To anyone who is worried about struggling into work tomorrow I have a suggestion - Don't drink so much.

    Let's celebrate St. Patrick's Day on, you know..... St. Patrick's Day!


  • #14
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    Monday or Friday would be perfect. I mean, Halloween they do the same don't they?


  • #15
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    It should be celebrated on the 17th of March. Take hoildays if you want your long weekend


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