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"Business Day" refers to Monday through Friday (Weekend: Saturday and Sunday). When an anniversary day that is usually a bank holiday falls on a weekend, the date of the bank holiday is postponed and declared for a following weekday. This new date is termed a 'bank holiday in lieu' of the actual anniversary day. In this way, public holidays are not 'lost' on years when they coincide with weekends (which will already be a day off for many people.)

United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland Bank's Holidays for 2008

There have been calls for an increase in the number of bank holidays, particularly for recognising April 23 (St George's Day) in England and March 1 (St David's Day) in Wales to have a public holiday on the feast day of the relevant patron saint.

March 17 (St Patrick's Day) is only a public holiday in Northern Ireland and, from 2008, November 30 (St Andrew's Day) is a bank holiday in Scotland.

There are also calls for new national bank holidays such as one to represent the United Kingdom, British Day (possibly part of Gordon Brown's new Britishness policy), Trafalgar Day as a result of the recent bicentennial, Community Day to celebrate volunteering and communities, Waterloo Day and also one to represent the European Union, making Europe Day a bank holiday, and one to represent the monarchy such as the Queen's Birthday (as in Australia, New Zealand and Canada) or coronation. from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

United Kingdom Bank's Holidays for 2008, 2009

31 December - New Year's Eve. Hogmanay - New Year's Eve in Scotland.

* - St. George's Day is celebrated by several nations of which Saint George is the patron saint, including Catalonia (Spain), England, Portugal, Georgia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Macedonia and the Gora. For England, St. George's Day also marks its National Day. Most countries who observe St. George's Day celebrate it on 23 April, the traditionally accepted date of Saint George's death in 303. St. George's Day is a provincial government holiday in Newfoundland, Canada.

Saint David's Day is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March each year.

St. Andrew's Day is the feast of Saint Andrew, celebrated on 30 November each year. Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and St. Andrew's Day is Scotland's official national day, although Burns' Night is more widely observed. In 2006, the Scottish Parliament designated the Day as an official bank holiday.

Saint Patrick's Day colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa 385–461 AD), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

The day is the national holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Montserrat, and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. also from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia