Except if the close for Good Friday at the moment it’s a days annual leave used up. If it’s a bank holiday it’s an extra days leave. No matter what way you look at it the employer pays.
Except if the close for Good Friday at the moment it’s a days annual leave used up. If it’s a bank holiday it’s an extra days leave. No matter what way you look at it the employer pays.Exactly
A new bank holiday that will not cost anything.
A great man, and the exception that proves the rule.
The Pudding is good. Do Cork make that Stout for when you run out of Guinness?
Midleton is great whiskey.
Second time?I just loooove being right! Again.
Every Friday is a bank holiday on Planet Greta!Call it Greta Day. It would be worth it just to see the foaming mouth brigade get triggered.
Ireland only has 4 canonised saints, Malachy, Oliver Plunket, Lawerence O'Toole and Charles of Mount Argus.Happy St. Bridget's Day.
I feel better about this becoming a bank holiday since I found out that St. Bridget isn't actually a saint. She lost that title in 1969.
Or is it Imbolc? Or (pagan goddess) Brigid's day?Happy St. Bridget's Day.
I feel better about this becoming a bank holiday since I found out that St. Bridget isn't actually a saint. She lost that title in 1969.
It’ll always be the feast of Imbolc to me.Or is it Imbolc? Or (pagan goddess) Brigid's day?
February 1st is a bit crowded
Apparently St. Bridget is still on the long list of saints. The downgrade in 1969 was to remove a bunch of saints of doubtful historicity so that they no longer appear on the official 'common' Catholic feast day calendar - along with George, Valentine, Christopher, Nicholas. 93 in total.
Given the time of year I think most people will be using this day in future as a duvet day!
There is quite a history to the Imbolc thing, not only in Ireland but in Scotland too. Particularly the Scottish islands. They also appear to have had a goddess Brigid who predated Christianity. And there's a passage tomb on the hill of Tara that's aligned to sunrise on 1st February, as Newgrange is at winter solstice. That can't really be a coincidence.It’ll always be the feast of Imbolc to me.
I dont like the way those Christians destroyed our Irish culture.
I see that RTE News have just run an item about today also being World Hijab Day apparently. Great, I thought, finally there's a day to highlight a campaign to free millions of women around the world from the oppression of having to shroud themselves in this ridiculous garment imposed by a misogynistic and theocratic patriarchy that would relegate the worst excesses of the Catholic church to a far distant second place.
But no, it was actually an approving piece that celebrated the "choice" women apparently make to wear hijab. So as not to inflame the (presumably uncontrollable) urges of men and lead them to commit sin, you see.
I'm sure that'll come as welcome news to the women of Iran who are routinely beaten in the streets by the "religious police" for having less than perfect hijab. RTE should be profoundly ashamed for its misguided attempt at fashionable diversity.
Thankfully we've cast off most of the religious oppressiveness that scourged our country for hundreds of years.Indeed, you'd have to wonder how headscarves like those could be anyway acceptable in good old Ireland.
Yes indeed. All the more reason not to re-import it via the practces of probably the most oppressive, homophobic and misogynistic religious culture on the planet.Thankfully we've cast off most of the religious oppressiveness that scourged our country for hundreds of years.
No argument there from me.All
Yes indeed. All the more reason not to re-import it via the practces of probably the most oppressive, homophobic and misogynistic religious culture on the planet.
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