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Is Good Friday a Bank Holiday?
dsab
Posts: 328 Forumite
in N. Ireland
I was just wondering if people consider Good Friday as a Bank Holiday. I always thought it wasn't one, despite my company giving the day off.
Went with the daughter to Belfast today and had Lunch at Cosmo. According to their pricelist Lunch from Mon-Fri is 7.99, and there was no mention of that being different today.
When we went to pay they charged 12.99, the Bank Holiday price according to the pricelist. I tired to argue that today wasn't a official Bank Holiday, but obviously the staff couldn't do anything about it. Interestingly there were several people behind me taken back by this as well.
What's your opinions. Was today a Bank Holiday?
Went with the daughter to Belfast today and had Lunch at Cosmo. According to their pricelist Lunch from Mon-Fri is 7.99, and there was no mention of that being different today.
When we went to pay they charged 12.99, the Bank Holiday price according to the pricelist. I tired to argue that today wasn't a official Bank Holiday, but obviously the staff couldn't do anything about it. Interestingly there were several people behind me taken back by this as well.
What's your opinions. Was today a Bank Holiday?
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Nice work tiger eyes. I thought my 2 minute response was fast but you were even quicker!0
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Today Good Friday is a bank holiday as far as I'm aware always has been.#6 of the SKI-ers Club :j
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke0 -
Yep it has always been a Bank Holiday as long as i can remember. Why else would most people get the day off work?"'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet
You're a slave to money then you die"0 -
Ok, thanks for clearing that up. My fault then.
Will def. remember that now. So confusing here. I am a foreigner, and where I come from a Bank Holiday is easy to spot...as ALL shops are closed.0 -
Ok, thanks for clearing that up. My fault then.
Will def. remember that now. So confusing here. I am a foreigner, and where I come from a Bank Holiday is easy to spot...as ALL shops are closed.
Used to be the same here. And in some places you still can't get a drink on days like Good Friday...
But Bank holidays are slowly eroding. Shops started opening Sunday hours, then Saturday hours...0 -
Ah that makes sense then. Bank Holidays here seem to be used to drag the whole family though the nearest shopping mall."'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet
You're a slave to money then you die"0 -
My memory of Good Fridays many years ago is that they were different to other bank holidays in that shops were open - but only in the morning0
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It is a bank holiday but not a public holiday. It is both a bank and public holiday in other parts of the uk and the rest of Europe. Tuesday is a public holiday but not a bank holiday. That is unique to NI.Stercus accidit0
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