{"id":18263,"date":"2017-03-03T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=18263"},"modified":"2017-03-03T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T11:36:09","slug":"st-davids-day-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2017\/03\/03\/st-davids-day-public-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Should St David&#039;s Day be a public holiday in Wales?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">EACH year on March 1, Wales celebrates St David\u2019s Day, but unlike St Andrew\u2019s Day and St Patrick\u2019s Day, in Scotland and Ireland respectively, it is not a public holiday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Every St David\u2019s Day, towns and cities across Wales, including Cardiff, organise parades to celebrate to occasion. This year the day fell on a wet and windy Wednesday, which undoubtedly affected the attendances.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18266\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"chris_Wrexham\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18266\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"chris_Wrexham\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0631-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019ve been out for the last three, there\u2019s a good turnout today, possibly not as many people as in previous years because some funding has been taken away from organising the event,\u201d said Chris Davies, 32, from Wrexham.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, many of those who braved the weather to join the parade were disappointed with the lack of opportunity available to others to enjoy the occasion. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI encourage people to book St David\u2019s Day off work as leave to show how much demand there is to celebrate the day,\u201d said Mr Davies. \u201cIn the UK we don\u2019t have as many bank holidays as in other major countries and I think the Saint David\u2019s Day is a great candidate to be made into one.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Llewellyn Smith, 32, from Newport was one of the volunteers that helped organise the parade. \u201cIf the Scottish can have a national bank holiday on St Andrews and the Irish can on St Patricks then I don\u2019t see why Wales can not on St David\u2019s Day,\u201d he said. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">St Patrick\u2019s Day became a national holiday in Ireland back in 1903 and more recently St Andrew\u2019s Day was made a bank holiday in Scotland in 2006. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18267 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0622\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18267 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0622\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0622-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript>A year after the Scottish Parliament made St Andrew\u2019s Day a bank holiday a petition was started to make St David\u2019s Day a public holiday. Despite figures which suggested 87% of Wales\u00a0was in favour of this change, the then Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected the petition.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last year, an online poll by ITV Wales asked whether or not people believed St David\u2019s Day should be a bank holiday. An overwhelming majority of 95.6% of people who answered said it should be.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe demand for it to become a bank holiday is there whether you look at opinion polls or online,\u201d said Marc Evans, 59, from Canton. \u201cEconomically a St David\u2019s Day parade could be a huge boost, its the start of the tourism season and we could have the chance to set up a festival.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mr Evans also spoke about how the day should not just celebrate Wales but also all the cultures which can be found within the country. \u201cWe have had all kinds of people join the parade this year, earlier I met a girl from Texas who had come over for it,&#8221; he said.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIn the past we have had people from the Polish community, the Nepalese community, Gurkhas, and last year we had a local Hindu temple send along dance troops.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cLooking ahead, Wales needs to establish its identity. Its the one day the media are prepared to show a token photograph of Wales, but if you come here and take part in the parade you really understand what\u2019s beneath it, and that&#8217;s a strong shared sense of belonging together and wanting to be together.\u201d<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18271\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0620\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18271\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"img_0620\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-770x578.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-293x220.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/IMG_0620-1400x1050.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One tradition which would be lost if St David\u2019s Day became a bank holiday would be school Eisteddfods. When March 1 falls on a weekday, schools in Wales host competitions between students.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Traditionally an Eisteddfod consists of singing, dancing and poetry competitions between the students, who will have been separated into houses.<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI&#8217;d prefer to celebrate the St David\u2019s Day on the nearest weekend and make that a bank holiday. In schools we have Eisteddfods and as much as a part of me believes it should be a bank holiday I don&#8217;t think schools should lose that tradition,\u201d said Aled Williams, 35, the progress leader and attendance officer at Ysgol Plasmawr, the Welsh medium high school in Fairwater. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EACH year on March 1, Wales celebrates St David\u2019s Day, but unlike St Andrew\u2019s Day and St Patrick\u2019s Day, in Scotland and Ireland respectively, it is not a public holiday. Every St David\u2019s Day, towns and cities across Wales, including Cardiff, organise parades to celebrate to occasion. This year the day fell on a wet and windy Wednesday, which undoubtedly affected the attendances. \u201cI\u2019ve been out for the last three, there\u2019s a good turnout today, possibly not as many people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":18265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,3,439],"tags":[4660,1291,4661,2559,4662,938,339,293],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city","category-news","category-diary","tag-bank-holiday","tag-cardiff-2","tag-dydd-gwyl-dewi","tag-parade","tag-saint-david","tag-st-davids-day","tag-wales","tag-welsh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Should St David&#039;s Day be a public holiday in Wales? - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2017\/03\/03\/st-davids-day-public-holiday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should St David&#039;s Day be a public holiday in Wales? - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EACH year on March 1, Wales celebrates St David\u2019s Day, but unlike St Andrew\u2019s Day and St Patrick\u2019s Day, in Scotland and Ireland respectively, it is not a public holiday. 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