Junior Minister: Make St Brigid's Day a public holiday

Martin Heydon said St Brigid's Day would officially celebrate an Irish woman.

St Brigid's Day, February 1, should be a public holiday, a junior minister has said.

Kildare TD Martin Heydon, who is Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, said Ireland should introduce the public holiday as a way of recognising the difficulties of the pandemic, saying that it would also be well-positioned in the calendar and would officially celebrate an Irish woman.