{"id":23188,"date":"2019-03-01T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=23188"},"modified":"2019-03-01T09:58:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:58:45","slug":"happy-st-davids-day-heres-how-to-join-in-todays-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/happy-st-davids-day-heres-how-to-join-in-todays-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians call for St David&#039;s Day to be bank holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Wales celebrates its patron saint today, calls have been made for the day to become a national holiday.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn Cardiff, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/388672051930703\/\">St David&#8217;s parade<\/a> has just ended with a rousing rendition of the Welsh national anthem-\u00a0Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.<br \/>\nThere were a few hundred people in the centre, including &#8216;St David&#8217; himself leading the parade.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23214\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23214\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/St-Davids-Parade-430x394.jpg\" alt=\"'St David' himself leading the St David's Day Parade through the streets of Cardiff\" width=\"430\" height=\"394\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-23214\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/St-Davids-Parade-430x394.jpg\" alt=\"'St David' himself leading the St David's Day Parade through the streets of Cardiff\" width=\"430\" height=\"394\" \/><\/noscript> &#8216;St David&#8217; himself leading the St David&#8217;s Day Parade through the streets of Cardiff<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNeil McEvoy AM has called for St David&#8217;s Day to become a national holiday in Wales.<br \/>\n&#8220;The council really should be investing in St David&#8217;s Day, so should the Welsh Government,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;They should give staff the day off. My office is closed today, my staff have a day off. The Council should do that. The Welsh Government should do it. The Assembly should do it. All Welsh politicians should do it; so we could have a defacto bank holiday.&#8221;<br \/>\nCouncillor Keith Parry echoed the calls, &#8220;It would boost business in Wales if St David&#8217;s day becomes a public holiday.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Since this parade started in Cardiff about 15 years ago, there are now about 15 other cities and towns having St David&#8217;s Day parades and it&#8217;s become a tourist attraction.&#8221;<br \/>\nBut note everyone thinks this is a good idea. Kelly Bridgeman who works at Supergarden Florist in Cardiff Market told us that it&#8217;s the busiest day for daffodil sales.<br \/>\n&#8220;Well I think for us it wouldn&#8217;t be good because the sales of daffodils are on St David&#8217;s Day, so the Market would be closed. We&#8217;d be closed. So I&#8217;d say no, I&#8217;m not for it.&#8221;<br \/>\nA spokesperson for the Welsh Government said that they&#8217;d really like to make it a bank holiday, but despite them &#8220;repeatedly asking the UK Government to give the powers to the Welsh Assembly&#8221;, they have been refused.<br \/>\nThey say they&#8217;ll continue to argue the case.<br \/>\nThe Office for the Secretary of State for Wales has yet to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus!\u00a0 As Wales celebrates its patron saint today, calls have been made for the day to become a national holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,6],"tags":[21,488,489,490,491,492,230],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest","category-news","tag-cardiff","tag-cardiff-market","tag-celebration","tag-dewi","tag-parade","tag-public-holiday","tag-st-davids-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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