The minority government of Fine Gael soars four points in today’s Behaviour & Attitudes polling for the Sunday Times, reaching 36 per cent of voting intentions and opening an eleven point lead over the main opposition Fianna Fail (down one to 25 per cent). This is Fine Gael’s best poll with B & A since […]
Category: Ireland
Varadkar and Fine Gael both slip in first B & A poll of 2018
Ireland’s minority ruling Fine Gael party sees its support fall by two percentage points today in the first Behaviour & Attitudes poll of the year, carried out for the Sunday Times. However it retains a healthy six-point lead in voting intentions over the main opposition, Fianna Fail. And to put this slight dip into context, […]
Varadkar helps Fine Gael move forward in Irish Times poll
Ipsos MRBI published its first national poll for over four months in yesterday’s Irish Times, covering not only voting intentions and leader ratings, but a number of individual issues notably including abortion law reform. The survey shows rather little has changed in voting intentions over that long period, but the numbers do give a first […]
Narrow lead for Fianna Fail with B&A as Varadkar fails to achieve poll lift-off
Just as in last weekend’s Red C poll, new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has failed to make an immediate impact in the first Behaviour & Attitudes survey to be fully researched since his election. In the comparable June B & A poll, the two main parties were tied on 29 per cent of voting intentions. Now […]
Varadkar leads in first poll since Fine Gael selection
New Taoiseach Leo Varadkar sees his Fine Gael party leading in Ireland’s first poll with all fieldwork carried out since his election was declared on 2 June. However, yesterday’s Red C survey for the Sunday Business Post also shows a closing of the gap to opposition Fianna Fail from eight to three points, suggesting little […]
Irish leadership contest to be two-horse race
He has kept Ireland waiting far longer than initially expected, but Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s inevitable resignation finally came yesterday afternoon. The competition to succeed him both as leader of the Fine Gael party and head of the country’s minority government will be a two-horse race between Housing Minister Simon Coveney and Social Protection Minister Leo […]