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One that matters, the Red C Poll has some interesting trends emerging as FF are now consistently coming back into the chasing pack. Granted their lead over Fine Gael is still big but nowhere near last Christmas and with a leap you hear the backbenchers gnashing nails and teeth.
Business Post/Red C Poll:
Fianna Fail: 35% (-1)
Fine [...]

Tomorrow’s Business Post/Red C Poll.
Fianna Fail 36 % (-2)
Fine Gael 23% (+1)
Labour 12% (-2)
Sinn Fein 10% (+3)
Greens 8% (–)
PDs 3% (-1)
Independents 8% (+1)

Edit: We have begun a petition for a weekend poll. See irishelection.com/weekendvote/
From RTE, though you may have heard it here first, Bertie is in favour of a Thursday poll in the forthcoming election. He reiterated that the Dail would resume after the Easter break (suggesting a possible June election at this stage though Wagger’s [...]

Just listening to last nights Vincent Browne. (usual Vincent editorialism anyway) Clare Daly said that the Socialist party would definitely not go into power with Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. Does that mean that they would consider the PD’s? Emm If the PD’s end up in opposition and are below the seats needed for speaking [...]

With all the ballots counted, preferences transfered and seats awarded, the make up of the could-be Stormont Assembly is now known. It was an election of little surprise - the DUP and Sinn Fein grew, the UUP and SDLP shrunk and no major names suffered shock defeats (akin to Trimble in the 2005 Westminster elections).
So [...]

Reading smiffy’s post here and some of the responses to it, what strikes me most forcibly about this period of Labour history is how it has ceased to be a national party (the 1/2 in the dreaded 2 and 1/2 party system) and is now one of a number of parties of and on the [...]

Tuesday and Wednesday of this week saw members of Dáil Éireann discussing the Labour party’s proposed Civil Unions Bill 2006. (Information also available here.) Those evenings also saw the response from the government and other opposition parties.
- Read the transcript of the debate on Tuesday, 20th February 2007 here.
- Read the transcript of the [...]

John was right there is a poll in Today’s Irish Times. First the results (adjusted for party support;
Fianna Fail 37% (-3)
Fine Gael 26 (-1)
Labour 11 –
Sinn Fein 9% (+2)
Green Party 8% (+4)
PDs 1% (-2)
Independent/Other 8% –

From politics.ie
FF 42 UP 3
FG 21 DOWN 2
LAB 12 NO CHANGE
SF 7 DOWN 1
GREEN 7 NO CHANGE
PDS 3 DOWN 1
INDS 8 UP 1

Amidst the plethora of “2006-in-review” articles populating today’s papers, there is one very interesting piece in the Tribune. The way our electoral system works makes polls slightly unhelpful—ignoring particularity within constituencies and also the nature of transfers—but the Tribune have taken a look across the most contested constituencies to attempt to predict the likely election [...]

You know, it is not often we get to talk about Socialist Party policies here. I think that this may be the first post on the site about the party, but we do include their feed in the Party News section. But then, they have control of Indymedia so does it matter that much? [...]