Colm O'Regan: Here's my pitch for the new Bank Holiday - Hump Monday

"I’m nominating the 8th Monday of the year. Hump Monday. The first Monday after St Valentine's day but despite the name, nothing to do with romance. A day to nudge you into the Spring."
Colm O'Regan: Here's my pitch for the new Bank Holiday - Hump Monday

Pic: Roger Kenny

Bank Holiday: When we commemorate the role banks have played in Irish society in recent years by going on an Absolute Mad One and spending the next while paying for it.

When should this new pandemic bonus holiday be? Fine Gael have suggested a Thanksgiving one on November 29th. I can see why someone thought that. It’s soon, it’s spendy, it’s American. And America loves us, don’t they? Something, something, Biden, something, something, Mayo For Sam, something. But there has been a backlash against that.

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