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🇮🇪 Ireland Long Weekends 2025

8 long weekends in Ireland in 2025. Plan your trips around these dates.

Planning the Christmas break? See Christmas and New Year public holidays across Europe, or Ireland public holidays 2027 to book next year's leave early.

Saint Brigid's Day
3 days
1 February 2025 — 3 February 2025
Saint Patrick's Day
3 days
15 March 2025 — 17 March 2025
Easter Monday
3 days
19 April 2025 — 21 April 2025
May Day
3 days
3 May 2025 — 5 May 2025
June Holiday
3 days
31 May 2025 — 2 June 2025
August Holiday
3 days
2 August 2025 — 4 August 2025
October Holiday
3 days
25 October 2025 — 27 October 2025
Christmas Day + St. Stephen's Day
4 days
25 December 2025 — 28 December 2025
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Long Weekends Summary — Ireland 2025

Longest
Christmas Day + St. Stephen's Day — 4 days, no leave used
By length
1 × 4-day, 7 × 3-day

How long weekends are calculated

A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend. It runs longer when holidays stack — Good Friday plus Easter Monday gives four days — and only statutory days off count, never days that are merely customary. All of these need no annual leave.
Source: Workplace Relations Commission — Public holidays ↗ · Dates verified annually. · Report an error
The WRC is the statutory body. It states ten public holidays, and that Good Friday is not one of them.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many long weekends does Ireland have in 2025?+
Ireland has 8 long weekends in 2025: 1 four-day weekend, and 7 three-day weekends.
What's the longest weekend in Ireland in 2025?+
The longest is around Christmas Day + St. Stephen's Day, running from 25 December 2025 to 28 December 2025 — 4 consecutive days off with no leave days needed.
How are long weekends calculated?+
A long weekend forms whenever a public holiday falls on a Friday or a Monday, giving a 3-day weekend, without using any annual leave. It gets longer when holidays stack: Good Friday plus Easter Monday makes a 4-day weekend, and a holiday on both the Thursday and the Friday makes four days from Thursday to Sunday. Days that are widely taken off but are not statutory — Christmas Eve in Sweden, or the day after Ascension in Belgium — do not count, because your employer is not obliged to give them to you.
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