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    Posted: 21 Jan 2019 at 8:30pm
A very low key marking of the century of one of the most pivotal days in the History of modern Ireland. 

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Originally posted by zizu Kilbane zizu Kilbane wrote:

A very low key marking of the century of one of the most pivotal days in the History of modern Ireland. 

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Hardly low key



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Originally posted by Denis Irwin Denis Irwin wrote:

Originally posted by zizu Kilbane zizu Kilbane wrote:

A very low key marking of the century of one of the most pivotal days in the History of modern Ireland. 

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Hardly low key


Disagree. The significance of this day is massive. It should have been a public holiday IMO. Obviously it’s being commemorated, but a national day of commemoration would have been more appropriate
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i fully agree with you zizu. a day just as significant in our history as the easter rising.

i didn't realise it was the 100th anniversary until this morning.
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1916 aside, it's hardly surprising that there are rarely any commemorations. Our past governments have never seemed keen to celebrate this period in our history. Partition and the Civil War are possible factors in this. 
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Yep I don't think we'll have any kind of public holiday in this regard until an United Ireland is formed unfortunately I think with the way brexit negotiations are going that is still very far off.

Given what happened in Derry the other day I live in hope that that was just an isolated incident and that we don't see a return of the troubles.
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Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:


Given what happened in Derry the other day I live in hope that that was just an isolated incident and that we don't see a return of the troubles.


No chance of that. None.
There is simply no reason to go back. I expect more incidents like this but they really don't have the support.

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Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Yep I don't think we'll have any kind of public holiday in this regard until an United Ireland is formed unfortunately I think with the way brexit negotiations are going that is still very far off.

Given what happened in Derry the other day I live in hope that that was just an isolated incident and that we don't see a return of the troubles.
In a United Ireland we will have the 12th of July as another holiday , so how many public holidays is feasible in a country that can't provide for its most vulnerable citizens ?
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Originally posted by PanteirA PanteirA wrote:

Originally posted by lassassinblanc lassassinblanc wrote:

Yep I don't think we'll have any kind of public holiday in this regard until an United Ireland is formed unfortunately I think with the way brexit negotiations are going that is still very far off.

Given what happened in Derry the other day I live in hope that that was just an isolated incident and that we don't see a return of the troubles.
In a United Ireland we will have the 12th of July as another holiday , so how many public holidays is feasible in a country that can't provide for its most vulnerable citizens ?
 
Can't see any reason why we can't just ditch one of the existing holidays in place of one for the 12th and "Independence Day". No need for additional holidays.
 
Having said that the number of public holidays has no correlation with how the state looks after the most vulnerable in society.
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Isn't the Number of our bank holidays lower than many EU countries anyway  
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Originally posted by irelandfan irelandfan wrote:

Isn't the Number of our bank holidays lower than many EU countries anyway  

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We need bank holiday Fridays - f**k the Monday monopoly 
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Surprisingly EU harmonisation doesn't extend to the number of Public Holidays per member state.  
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Originally posted by Bob Hoskins Bob Hoskins wrote:

We need bank holiday Fridays - f**k the Monday monopoly 
No no no we need bank holiday Fridays to run in conjunction with the bank holiday Mondays
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Been a bank holiday in Dublin on a September Monday the last four years. 
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Originally posted by irelandfan irelandfan wrote:

Isn't the Number of our bank holidays lower than many EU countries anyway  

Surprised at that, would have assumed we had more than most EU countries.
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We only have 1 bank holiday per year on Good Friday - the others are public holidays.
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