Google it Johnjo
Ya, I’ll type that whole paragraph in 
Did the reviewer make a mistake 
Duncan Edwards…not Duncan Ferguson
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Ta 
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But an almighty pair of baps to make up for it.
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Kelly Brook in Race Across the World. Was an enjoyable enough series.
Finished up last week actually so all of the IT listings there may be a week old.
Probably deliberate. They wouldn’t do it for rugby anyway.
How is the bauld Kelly looking nowadays?
Voluptuous
She’s thriving
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A look at her insta would confirm what @Rintintin always suspected. Thriving is right.
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Pól Ó Conghaile: How to double your days off in 2025 with smart planning around annual leave
Make 20 days’ leave stretch to 46 days off with some magic arithmetic
Pól Ó Conghaile
December 27 2024 02:30 AM
There’s a year of potential holidays ahead, so how can you plan to make the most of yours?
Twenty days is the average annual leave in Ireland. Some of us have less, some more. Some have shift work and, of course, school holidays to factor into family plans.
But by mapping your leave carefully to public holidays, it’s possible to double that number of days off. And maybe more.
Ireland has 10 public holidays each year, with the first, celebrating St Brigid’s Day, falling on Monday, February 3.
Booking the Friday before or Tuesday after gets you four days off for one day’s annual leave. Booking both gets you five days off for the price of two, and so on.
This time of year is good for a city trip or blast of winter sun.
St Patrick’s Day falls on a Monday in 2025, so booking the Friday before will similarly bank four days off (including the weekend, of course) for one day’s annual leave.
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Add a Thursday or Tuesday, and you have five for two.
Other bank holidays include the first Mondays in May, June and August, and the last in October (the 27th next year, typically coinciding with midterm).
Calculating like I have above, you can secure a nine-day break with four days’ annual leave by taking the Tuesday to Friday following a bank holiday — in June, for example, that would mean a holiday from May 31 to June 8 inclusive.
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Easter is usually the first opportunity for a big break at relatively little cost to your leave. It falls late in 2025, on Sunday, April 20. Easter Monday is a public holiday and while Good Friday is not, many workplaces treat this as a day off. The two days give you a starting point of four days off (including the intervening weekend).
That’s just the start. You can attach annual-leave days before or after to extend that break as you wish. Book four days from April 14-17 inclusive, and another four from April 22-25, for example, and you could get 16 days off (including three weekends) for just eight days’ leave.
Easter can be a pricey time to go away — particularly for packages. But its late date means it coincides with airline summer schedules in 2025, giving a wider pick of destinations. You may find value, for example, in city breaks midweek, rather than week-long sun holidays.
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Then there is Christmas. It seems insane to be talking about it already, but here’s another time with rich pickings for annual leave. Christmas Day falls on a Thursday in 2025, with St Stephen’s Day on Friday, December 26. New Year’s Day 2026 (Thursday, January 1) is also a holiday.
That gives options. Take three days’ annual leave from December 22-24, for example, and you have a nine-day break lasting from Saturday, December 20, to Sunday, December 28, inclusive.
Take four working days the following week (around New Year’s) and you could stretch that to a whopping 16 days off for the price of seven.
Everybody’s circumstances are different but, totting up some options based on the above, I could for example take two four-day breaks around bank holidays in February and October, six days off around Easter, a 16-day summer holiday in August, and 16 days off at Christmas.
That gives 46 days off for a total of 20 days’ annual leave, counting bank holidays and weekends. Somehow, it makes a year’s work seem more manageable.
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Or alternatively just WFH
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Novel concept of basing your annual leave around bank holiday weekends.
20 days the ‘average annual leave’
20 days is the legal minimum for full time workers. Fucks it all up at the very start. Part time worker annual leave etc shouldn’t be included in his ‘calculations’
The Irish Times is usually great for some woeful stuff this time of year
Filler
Conor Pope usually spews out a couple of doozies.
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