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 [...]
Pardon the spelling if dickying is incorrect but I highlighted a post earlier today on Open Europe – as much for myself to return to later than anything else and yes those links in the sidebar do change!. They have a copy of the original Commission poll(PDF) that informed the awful reporting in the Independent [...]
The first poll after the Lisbon result comes with little by way of surprise. The Sunday Business Post/Red C poll finds the Irish electorate looks unlikely to have engaged in a mass volte face with regard to the major parties after Lisbon.
Fianna Fail 40% (unchanged)
Fine Gael 25% (-3)
Conor and Richard have spent a lot of time deconstructing the poll “data” that has been circulating around the two major broadsheets in the past few days. Not alone does the data not tally in some cases (under-15s voting?, 105% of the electorate giving a response?) it is still not publicly available to peruse days after [...]
In a great day for Irish and European democracy, the Irish people, on a higher turnout than Nice II, rejected the illegitimate and anti-democratic Lisbon Treaty by 53.4% to 46.6%. In doing so, they have struck a blow for freedom and against remote, unaccountable and undemocratic rule by unelected bureaucrats in Brussels. They have shown [...]
So, 13 men make up the Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women’s Issues. Only in this Banana Republic. Thanks to Ger for drawing my attention to it. And we wonder why the Government often appears to have so little knowledge about the issues upon which they should be legislating.
Councillor bound to peace for insulting fellow FG activist
A NEWLY ELECTED Fine Gael councillor has been bound to the peace for 12 months for calling a fellow party member “a f****** scab”.
Green members’ conference set for July
The debate on Lisbon is underway as the Green Party look at getting their meeting out of the way on 18 July – can we expect the fireworks and close vote of last time out or will the Greens take part on the Yes side this time out?
Average public worker earns more than €50,000 a year
Grist is added to the mill of An Bord Snip nua as the CSO figures on pay are released.
Is Charlie McCreevy in the running to lead the No campaign for Lisbon II? asks Jamie Smyth of The Irish Times.
