This week I learned that Good Friday is NOT a bank holiday

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

My whole life I thought it was, everyone behaves as though it is, but officially it isn't. Came up in a discussion, I was insistent that I was right but when I Googled I was wrong. I'm very peeved about being wrong.

Sorry, 'public' holiday not 'bank' holiday. The banks do close.

It is in the UK tho.

Aren't bank holidays always on Mondays?

Usually on Mondays, but not Christmas or St Steven's Day.

Or Paddy's Day

Isn't this semantics in the modern world? There is no observable difference between a public holiday and a bank holiday any longer.

I guess you’re not in England or Wales then.

@ToothGrinder

It is in the UK tho.

There are lots of public holidays in other countries that we don't have in Ireland. I don't think the fact that it is one in the UK is what has confused me, considering I live in Ireland, I think it's the fact that everyone behaves like it's a public holiday. There's no question at all of offices etc staying open, I think the workers would revolt if any company tried such a thing.

I'll just point out that this is in Craicnet, so specfically about the country where craic is to be had.

Good old Steve.

@ToothGrinder

Good old Steve.

Stephen! Am I going to hell for that spelling mistake?

i don't think good friday is a bank holiday in the uk.
it certainly wasn't when i was young.

@alexdgr8

i don't think good friday is a bank holiday in the uk. it certainly wasn't when i was young.

According to www.gov.uk/bank-holidays#england-and-wales it's a bank holiday in all the UK countries.

It is a bank holiday though www.officeholidays.com/countries/united-kingdom/2022

I thought it was a public holiday and not a bank holiday but have never fully understood the difference.
Glad to have the day off anyway, apologies to those that have to work.

The www.gov.uk website also use the term 'bank' holiday, presumably interchangeable with 'public' holiday. Whereas the Irish website www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/employment_rights_and_conditions/leave_and_holidays/public_holidays_in_ireland.html uses the term 'public holiday, sometimes called bank holiday'.

Ahhosted before seeing your recent posts. And didn't check the board. You are indeed correct, in Ireland it's not a bank holiday though apparently the banks are closed.

It is a bank holiday not a public holiday tho

*posted

The banks aren’t open on good Friday

[quote longtompot]It is a bank holiday though www.officeholidays.com/countries/united-kingdom/2022[/quote]
This is Craicnet. I was intending to say 'NOT THE UK' in my OP but I forgot.

Am I going to hell for that spelling mistake?

Probably. Try and stand still all the way through the Good Friday Gospel to attone. (My old dad always said we'd get a soul out of purgatory each if we managed it - he may just have got fed up with our fidgeting however.)

Sorry, didn't realise this was craicnet, thought it was just a general thread. Maybe they dock your Good Friday bank holiday to make up for you having a day off for St Paddy (which ofc we in the UK don't get). The government giveth and the government taketh away, or something.

We don't get st Patrick's day so it balances out I suppose.

*atone

It's all very confusing. How did they ever manage to force the pubs to close on Good Friday when it wasn't even a public holiday? (I know that doesn't happen now, but that's only very recent.)