
WRC Complaint Deadlines: The 6-Month Clock That Catches Everyone
The WRC clock starts on the date of the contravention, not the day you found out. That small detail catches people every day.

Expert insights on Ireland working days, public holidays, and date calculations. For the rule definitions, see the technical reference, and for scenario walkthroughs, visit Use Cases.

The WRC clock starts on the date of the contravention, not the day you found out. That small detail catches people every day.

There may be no formal national shutdown, but in practice most conveyancing offices go quiet from late December to early January.

Limitation periods are absolute. Procedural deadlines are more flexible, but missing them still carries real risk.

Shutdown periods are not legally mandated, but most CIF sites treat them as hard stops. Contracts and payment cycles need to reflect that.

The statutory minimums are only the starting point. Here are the thresholds and counting quirks that most often cause diary disasters.

Two common surprises: a public holiday doesn't automatically 'move' if it lands on a weekend, and Good Friday still isn't a statutory public holiday.

The headline quirk: key steps can be due in 5 working days, and 'working day' itself quietly removes the week after Christmas.

The same Friday in April can be a normal working day for conveyancing, a 'non-reckonable' day for short court deadlines, and a day off in many offices anyway.

The deadline you think you have and the deadline Order 122 gives you are sometimes different -- especially for short periods and late-day service.