Sources: Houses of the Oireachtas- National Parliament (Dublin) and Ireland bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier this week, the Cabinet of the Government of the Republic of Ireland, gave consideration to last year's proposal for an annual, or one-off in 2016, Republic Day non-working public holiday, from the All-Party Consultation Group on Commemorations, but decided that "as Easter weekend is traditionally associated with the [1916 Easter] Rising, there was no need to mark it with another day off". [full story]