Public holidays in Ireland in 2027

According to the Workplace Relations Commission, Ireland's public holidays are set by rule. Applying those rules to the 2027 calendar:

• New Year's Day — Friday 1 January
• First Monday in February — Monday 1 February
• St Patrick's Day — Wednesday 17 March
• Easter Monday — 29 March
• First Monday in May — 3 May
• First Monday in June — 7 June
• First Monday in August — 2 August
• Last Monday in October — 25 October
• Christmas Day — Saturday 25 December
• St Stephen's Day — Sunday 26 December

The February holiday falls on the first Monday, except when 1 February is a Friday — in 2027, 1 February is itself a Monday.

Sources: Workplace Relations Commission — Public Holidays; Government of the Netherlands — 2027 calendar, for the 2027 Easter date; both read 8 October 2026.

For each public holiday, the WRC says the employee is entitled to whichever of these the employer decides:

• a paid day off on the day
• a paid day off within a month
• an extra day of annual leave
• an extra day's pay

Full-time workers qualify immediately; part-time workers qualify once they've worked a total of 40 hours in the previous 5 weeks. If you work on a public holiday, you're paid for the day and also keep your entitlement for the holiday.

One thing to know as a newcomer: Good Friday is a normal working day in Ireland, even though Easter Monday is a holiday. In 2027, most of the Monday holidays create long weekends — February, Easter, May, June, August and October — and St Patrick's Day falls midweek, on a Wednesday.

Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day land on the weekend in 2027; how that's handled depends on the entitlement your employer chooses from the list above.