Public-holiday planning
- St Patrick’s Day and the Monday public holidays can create easy long weekends.
- Easter Monday is often useful for a four-day break with one leave day.
- Christmas and St Stephen’s Day can produce strong year-end combinations.
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🇮🇪Ireland
Most employees are entitled to four working weeks of paid annual leave, subject to statutory calculation rules.
Statutory paid annual leave4 working weeks (normally 20 days on a 5-day week)Annual-leave context
Comparable 5-day-week equivalent20 daysNormalized comparison value; see method below.
Official sourceVerifiedCitizens Information Ireland
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Legal basis and comparison method
Most employees are entitled to four working weeks of paid annual leave, subject to statutory calculation rules.
Regional and calendar caveats
The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.
Official employment source: Citizens Information Ireland. Open official guidance ↗
This is a planning aid, not employment-law advice. Entitlement can depend on tenure, work pattern, sector, contract, collective agreement and regional law.
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The planner combines weekends with supported public-holiday data and can use first-level regional calendars where the dataset provides them. Employer-specific, municipal and sector-specific days can still differ.
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