Sunday Business Post poll results in full

The Sunday Business Post had another of its regular polls in this Sunday’s edition, which highlighted some interesting changes in public opinion.

One intriguing outcome of the poll that the amount of people who trust Bertie Ahern has fallen, while the amount of people who support Fianna Fáil has risen.

Critically, however, the number of people who don’t believe him has not risen (indeed it has fallen by 1% but is still in the majority) - it instead seems that those who didn’t believe him before are now considering this situation as incompatible with his ongoing leadership of the country; something they may not have felt so strongly on before.

While the results are bad news for Ahern they could be worse - if he was seen to be losing support and dragging the party down with him he’d have a much harder time. The full results are below the fold. Party Support

If there were a general election tomorrow, to which party or independent candidate would you give your first preference vote?

Fianna Fáil: 37% (up 1%)
Fine Gael: 31% (down 1%)
Labour: 10% (no change)
Sinn Féin: 8% (down 1%)
Green Party: 7% (no change)
Progressive Democrats: 2% (no change)
Independents/Others: 6% (up 2%)

Attitudes towards Bertie Ahern and the Mahon Tribunal:

I don’t believe the account Bertie Ahern has given the Mahon Tribunal about his finances:

Agree: 53% (down 1%)
Disagree: 28% (down 1%)
Neither: 19% (up 2%)

I don’t trust Bertie Ahern to run the country after hearing his version of events at the tribunal:

Agree: 50% (up 4%)
Disagree: 39% (down 4%)
Neither: 11% (no change)

Bertie Ahern should resign as Taoiseach if he is to found to have lied to the tribunal:
Agree: 69% (up 3%)
Disagree: 24% (down 3%)
Neither: 7% (no change)

The tribunal shouldn’t be investigating Bertie Ahern’s private finances and should leave him alone:

Agree: 38% (down 1%)
Disagree: 56% (up 1%)
Neither: 6% (no change)

Lisbon Treaty:

In 2008, Ireland will hold a referendum to ratify the European Union Reform Treaty. If there were a referendum tomorrow, would you vote for Ireland to sign up to the Reform Treaty or not?

Yes: 46% (up 1%)
No: 23% (down 2%)
Don’t know: 31% (up 1%)