If you are thinking of donating to a charity this year you might consider the Kerry Rape Crisis Centre for their support of a victim of sexual assault subject to horrific community bullying in Listowel.
Latest Irish Times/IPSOS-MRBI (the newly merged group) poll. Poll taken Tue-Wed when the banking report drip feed was on but before it became main news. Last comparable poll (January) in brackets: FF 17 (22), FG 28 (32). Lab 32 (24), SF 9 (8), Green 3 (3), Ind 11 (11).
Have at the interpretation in comments. To [...]
In tomorrows Sunday Business Post
Fine Gael 33 (-2)
Fianna Fáil 23 (-1)
Labour 24 (+7)
Green 6 (+1)
Sinn Fein 6 (-4)
Indepedents 8
More on leaders ratings later
Tomorrow’s Sunday Business Post Poll is bad news for Fianna Fail, down 3% to 24%.
Party Support:
FF 24% (-3)
FG 35% (+1)
Lab 17% (–)
Greens 5% (–)
SF 10% (+1)
Other/Ind 9% (+1)
Red C poll capturing post-budget reaction for Sunday Business Post with previous poll (22nd Nov) in parentheses: FF 27% (23%), FG 34%(36%), Lab 17%(17%), SF 8%(10%), Green 5% (5%), Ind. 9% (9%).
These results are not easy to interpret.
One of few journalists to call CU for Dana in 1999 has called the third seat in the Northwest euro constituency for Libertas leader Declan Ganley:
Ten years ago this week, I was the only reporter to ‘call’ it for Independent candidate Dana Rosemary Scallon in advance of the Connacht-Ulster European election. Fianna Fáil and Fine [...]
The early numbers are out from tomorrow’s breakdown of the European race. Keith had some of the early East constituency numbers online a while ago and the rest of the details is clearing up now. Yesterday had Fianna Fail on 20%, Labour on 23% and Fine Gael on 36% – interesting to see how the [...]
Stephen Spillane has interesting details of the Evening Echo poll conducted by Landsdowne in Cork city and county.
Fianna Fail – 9%
Fine Gael – 23%
Labour – 20%
Green Party – 4%
Sinn Fein – 6%
Socialists – 0%
Independent/Libertas – 16%
No Party/Vote for Personality – 23%
Don’t Know – 13%
Irish Times poll by TNS/MRBI is out tomorrow.
Party Ratings:
Fianna Fáil 21% (-1)
Fine Gael 38% (+6)
Labour Party 20% (-4)
Sinn Féin 9% (nc)
Green Party 3% (-1)
Government Satisfaction 10% (-4)
Leaders Satisfaction:
Brian Cowen 18% (-6)
Enda Kenny 33% (+3)
Eamon Gilmore 51% (+7)
John Gormley 25% (-4)
Results, courtesy of Neil:
Fianna Fáil 23% (-5)
Fine Gael 33% (+2)
Labour Party 19% (+2)
Green Party 7% (n/c)
Sinn Féin 8% (+1)
Independents/others 10%
That poll would have been taken on Monday and Tuesday.
As always, you get the results first here on IrishElection.com!
Update:
RTÉ now has more on this. When asked how they would vote in the Local & Euro [...]
Sindo Poll: FF 23, FG 26, Lab 18, SF 5. Greens 3, Ind 4. Yes I know that adds to 79!
Leaders: Cowen 20, Kenny 33, Gilmore 65, Gormley 38, Adams 27.
Hat tip to Aoife.
Update:
It appears those are the “raw” numbers, and the 21% spare is the undecideds. Depending on how you distribute them, it would [...]
In tomorrows Irish Times MRBI Poll the Labour Party are the big movers up 10% to 24&.
The Government disapproval rating ranks at 85%.
Fianna Fail 22 -5
Fine Gael 32 -2
Labour 24 +10
Sinn Fein 9 +1
Greens 4 no change,
Government Approval 14%, disapproval 85%
Fianna Fáil are seeing something of a bounceback in tomorrow morning’s Sunday Business Post RedC poll. The numbers, as reported by RTÉ News:
Fianna Fáil: 30 (+4)
Fine Gael: 35 (+2)
Labour Party: 14 (-1)
Sinn Féin: 8 (-2)
Green Party: 5 (-1)
Independent/Others: 8 (-2)
The poll is a week earlier than normal (normally it’s the last weekend of the month, [...]
Fianna Fail suport plummets after a Red C poll for tomorrow’s Sunday Business poll has Fine Gael ahead of them. Taken on Monday-Wednesday it was always going to be bad but this is probably beyond where TDs thought it might go. Fianna Fail are on 26%, seven points behind Fine Gael on 33% and Labour [...]
ITs a good week for Red C to take the latest tracking poll for the Sunday Business Post. Markets are falling like stones (Friday has the potential to be another massive dead cat bounce) and the government don’t look to have stamped authority on many aspects of policy.
Today’s Humbert Summer schools has the opposition berating Cowen and attempting to frame the narrative for the upcoming election run-in. In her speech (wonderfully titled Brian Cowen and the Riddle of Cleopatra’s Nose)
Then, Brian Cowen enjoyed huge public and media approval and was received in his home county as a conquering hero. That has all [...]
Even before the Irish people’s democratic decision to reject the fatally-flawed Lisbon Treaty, (which would have deepened the democratic-deficit in Europe still further), the source of Libertas funding was a bane of “yes” campaigners. To the elite, the possibility of the ‘mainstream’ parties being so decisively outspent by this upstart pro-business [...]
Dan Boyle sheds the green jersey. His Sunday Tribune comments (which only got a weblink late in the day) are noted by Reuters.
Ivor the Driver — full Seanad report. It was nice of Bertie to send Ivor’s letter of appointment to his Cork address.
How ossified is Irish politics? In the blink of an eye, Australia — which had no recession — replaces its Prime Minister.
I’m a victim of unique Irish blame culture, says Harney
Things Ministers don't do part 2: Harney is not really responsible for these clinial fuck-ups. Sure kick her over policy but not failure. Typical Irish begrudgerry.
