After an exceptional poll in February giving the minority ruling party an 11-point lead, Fine Gael’s advantage falls back to a more routine five percentage points in today’s Behaviour & Attitudes survey for the Sunday Times. The main opposition Fianna Fail picks up two to reach 27 per cent of voting intentions. Sinn Fein, under […]
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Fine Gael opens up 11 point lead in Ireland
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Turnaround for Fine Gael as Sinn Fein surge ends
There has been a massive shift since mid-March in the Republic of Ireland’s voting intentions according to today’s Behaviour & Attitudes poll for the Sunday Times. Having been clearly behind Fianna Fail for many months, and even slipping into third behind Sinn Fein in March, minority governing party Fine Gael have somehow hauled themselves into […]